Women writers and nineteenth-century medievalism
By: Clare Broome Saunders
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
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780230618572
Subjects: History; English literature; History and criticism; Medievalism; Women authors; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM; Women and literature; Women in literature; Middle Ages in literature; European
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index.

Description based on print version record.
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.