“A Sense of Life in Things Inert”: The Animistic Figurations in Nineteenthand Twentieth-Century Medievalist Texts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vi
3. Contents vii
4. Illustrations ix
5. Editorial Note xi
6. I Ecomedievalism: Some Perspective(s)
7. “A Sense of Life in Things Inert”: The Animistic Figurations in Nineteenthand Twentieth-Century Medievalist Texts 3
8. Future Nostalgias: Environmental Medievalism and Lanier’s Southern Chivalry 11
9. T. H. White’s “Forest Sauvage”: Nostalgia and Loss 21
10. Elvencentrism: The Green Medievalism of Tolkien’s Elven Realms 31
11. II Interpretations
12. Fragmentary Dreams: John Aubrey’s Medieval Heritage Construction 45
13. Charter Horns and the Antiquarian Imagination in Early Modern England 67
14. Giving Voice to Griselda: Radical Reimaginings of a Medieval Tale 87
15. Medieval and Futuristic Hells: The Influence of Dante on Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” 117
16. Reading Westeros: George R. R. Martin’s Multi-Layered Medievalisms 131
17. Modernity in the Middle: The Medieval Fantasy of (Coopted) Feminism in Disney’s Maleficent 143
18. Future Medieval: (Neo)Medievalism in Babylon 5 and Crusade 161
19. Cosmopolitan Anxieties and National Identity in the Netflix Marco Polo 177
20. Mapping Everealm: Space, Time, and Medieval Fictions in The Quest 195
21. Medievalisms of the Mind: Undergraduate Perceptions of the “Medieval” and the “Middle Ages” 213
22. Mask of the Medieval Corpse: Prosopopoeia and Corpsepaint in Mayhem’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas 237
23. Contributors 259