8 “That’s what you get for being food”: Margaret Atwood’s Symbolic Cannibalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: English Canadian Medievalism 1
4. 1 “Men of the North”: Archibald Lampman’s Use of Incidents in the Lives of Medieval Monarchs and Aristocrats 17
5. 2 “Going Back to the Middle Ages”: Tracing Medievalism in Julia Beckwith Hart’s St. Ursula’s Convent and John Richardson’s Wacousta 36
6. 3 John Richardson’s Wacousta and the Transfer of Medievalist Romance 52
7. 4 A Canadian Caliban in King Arthur’s Court: Materialist Medievalism and Northern Gothic in William Wilfred Campbell’s Mordred 66
8. 5 Orientalist Medievalism in Early Canadian Periodicals 83
9. 6 The Collegiate Gothic: Legitimacy and Inheritance in Robertson Davies’s The Rebel Angels 97
10. 7 Earle Birney as Public Poet: a Canadian Chaucer? 113
11. 8 “That’s what you get for being food”: Margaret Atwood’s Symbolic Cannibalism 129
12. 9 Lost in Allegory: Grief and Chivalry in Kit Pearson’s A Perfect, Gentle Knight 143
13. 10 Remembering the Romance: Medievalist Romance in Fantasy Fiction by Guy Gavriel Kay and Charles de Lint 155
14. 11 Medievalisms and Romance Traditions in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Ysabel 172
15. 12 The Medieval Methods of Patrick DeWitt: Undermajordomo Minor 189
16. Index 205