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Author:

Saunders, Clare Broome.

Title:

Women writers and nineteenth-century medievalism / Clare Broome Saunders.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Nineteenth-century major lives and letters

ISBN:

9780230607934
0230607934

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)