"In a thoughtful and detailed study, Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism considers the ways in which women poets, biographers, and historians used medieval motifs and settings to enable them to comment on controversial contemporary issues. Broome Saunders' illuminating discuss...

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1. Verfasser:	Saunders, Clare Broome ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Palgrave Macmillan 2009
Ausgabe:	1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:	Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1800-1900 English literature / Women authors / History and criticism English literature / 19th century / History and criticism Medievalism / History / 19th century Women and literature / History / 19th century Middle Ages in literature Women in literature Geschichte English literature > Women authors > History and criticism English literature > 19th century > History and criticism Medievalism > History > 19th century Women and literature > History > 19th century
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Zusammenfassung:	"In a thoughtful and detailed study, Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism considers the ways in which women poets, biographers, and historians used medieval motifs and settings to enable them to comment on controversial contemporary issues. Broome Saunders' illuminating discussion focuses on women working during the socio-political and religious upheaval of the nineteenth century and mines the poetry of Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; portrayals of Joan of Arc and Guinevere in art and literature; and non-fiction sources such as women s letters and diaries during the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index Recasting the courtly : translations of Medieval language and form in the nineteenth century -- "Though females are forbidden to interfere in politics" : war, medievalism, and the nineteenth-century woman writer -- "It's strictly the woman's part and men understand it so" : romance, gender, and the spectacle of the Crimean -- The end of chivalry? : Joan of Arc and the nineteenth-century woman writer -- Queenship, chivalry, and "queenly" women in the age of Victoria -- Guinevere : the Medieval queen in the nineteenth-century -- Rereading Guinevere : women illustrators, Tennyson, and Morris
Beschreibung:	230 S. Ill. 22 cm
ISBN:	0230607934 9780230607934