Women writers and nineteenth-century medievalism
By: Clare Broome Saunders.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters; Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780230607934
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Recasting the courtly : translations of Medieval language and form in the nineteenth century; title: "Though females are forbidden to interfere in politics" : war, medievalism, and the nineteenth-century woman writer; title: "It's strictly the woman's part and men understand it so" : romance, gender, and the spectacle of the Crimean; title: The end of chivalry? : Joan of Arc and the nineteenth-century woman writer; title: Queenship, chivalry, and "queenly" women in the age of Victoria; title: Guinevere : the Medieval queen in the nineteenth-century; title: Rereading Guinevere : women illustrators, Tennyson, and Morris.