book: Studies in Medievalism XXXIII

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Studies in Medievalism XXXIII

(En)gendering Medievalism

Edited by: Karl Fugelso
With contributions by: Rolf H. Bremmer , Philippus H. Breuker , Christine Ekholst , Kevin J Harty , Christina M Heckman , Robert Houghton , Mareike Huber , Carol Jamison , H. Peter Johnsson , Chelsea Keane , Alison Killilea , Lauryn S. Mayer , Lisa Myers , Kirsten Elizabeth Ogilby and Carol L Robinson

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Studies in Medievalism

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Volume 33 | Studies in Medievalism

About this book

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages.

Author / Editor information

Heckman Christina M :

CHRISTINA M. HECKMAN is Professor of English at Augusta University, Georgia.Houghton Robert :

ROBERT HOUGHTON is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester, UK.

Topics

Literary Studies German Literature 8th-15th Century

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Karl Fugelso Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
I: (En)gendering Medievalism
The Peacock Television Network’s Mrs. Davis, Sister Simone, and Messing Up the Quest for the Holy Grail Kevin J. Harty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Bitches Be Crazy: Patriarchal Weaponization of Mental Distress in Game of Thrones Lauryn Mayer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Capital One’s Condemnation, Conversion, and Eventual Celebration of Mythical Medieval Northern European Males through Allegorical Commercials Carol L. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
The Northman and the Link between Past and Present Masculinities H. Peter Johnsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
II: Other Responses to Medievalism
Maternal Games in The Green Knight: Launching Gawain Carol Jamison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Seaxy Beast: Grendel’s Mother and Responses to Third-Wave Feminism in Beowulf Adaptations Alison Elizabeth Killilea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Artoria Pendragon: Anachronism, Gender, and Self-Acceptance in the Fate Anime Series of Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi Lisa Myers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Exalted by Honour: Women’s Medievalist History Plays in the Late Eighteenth Century Kirsten Ogilby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
A Violent Medium for a Violent Era: Brutal Medievalist Combat in Dragon Age: Origins and Kingdom Come: Deliverance Robert Houghton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
The “Old Frisian” Tescklaow as Invented Tradition: Forging Friesland’s Rural Past in the Early Nineteenth Century Rolf H. Bremmer and Philippus Breuker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Neither Brutes, Nor Sissies: Re-imagining the Vikings on a Swedish Online Forum Christine Ekholst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Avatar Creation and White Masculinity in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival and Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One Chelsea Keane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Intersectionality in Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife Mareike Huber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
The Smith, the Devil, and Jim Crow: Medieval Hagiography, Victorian Popular Culture, and the Legacy of Slavery in Edward G. Flight’s The Horse Shoe: The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil Christina M. Heckman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Previously Published Volumes Details of earlier titles are available from the publisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

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April 16, 2024

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9781805432821

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D.S.Brewer

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270

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6 b/w illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805432821

eBook ISBN: 9781805432821

Keywords for this book

masculinity; sexism; patriarchy; discrimination; humor; agency; passivity; exploitation; feminism; Victorian; empowerment; Morgan le Fay; chivalry; tragedy; sexual orientation

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Professional and scholarly;

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