Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgement vi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 The New World Crusades: British Colonial Charters, Pilgrim- Crusaders, and the Transatlantic Captivity Narrative 17
6. 2 Errant in the Wilderness: The Naming of California, Don Quixote’s America, and Other Geographic Fantasies 35
7. 3 Mad Trist: American Anglo-Saxonism, James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, and Edgar Allan Poe’s Subversive Medievalism 55
8. 4 The Time Machine in the Garden: Frontier Medievalisms, Owen Wister’s Te Virginian, and Mark Twain’s Apophatic America 74
9. 5 The Persistent Medieval: T.S. Eliot’s Te Waste Land, Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, and William Faulkner’s Organic Medievalism 98
10. 6 The Spectacle of the Medieval: America’s New Feudalism, HBO’s Game of Trones, and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Novels 120
11. Conclusion 140
12. Bibliography 155
13. Index 177