Utopia and Heterotopia: Byzantine Modernisms in America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vi
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Editorial Note xi
6. I: Defining Neomedievalism(s): Some Perspective(s)
7. Medieval Unmoored 1
8. Neomedievalism, Hyperrealism, and Simulation 12
9. A Short Essay about Neomedievalism 25
10. Neomedievalism: An Eleventh Little Middle Ages? 34
11. The Simulacrum of Neomedievalism 44
12. Sandworms, Bodices, and Undergrounds: The Transformative Mélange of Neomedievalism 58
13. Dark Matters and Slippery Words: Grappling with Neomedievalism(s) 68
14. II: (Neo-)Medievalist Interpretations
15. Utopia and Heterotopia: Byzantine Modernisms in America 77
16. Queer Crusading, Military Masculinity, and Allegories of Vietnam in Richard Lester’s Robin and Marian 114
17. Getting Reel with Grendel’s Mother: The Abject Maternal and Social Critique 135
18. The Colony Writes Back: F. N. Robinson’s Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Translatio of Chaucer Studies to the United States 160
19. False Memories: The Dream of Chaucer and Chaucer’s Dream in the Medieval Revival 204
20. Notes on Contributors 227