Revivalist fantasy
Subtitle: alliterative verse and nationalist literary history
By: Randy P. Schiff
Series: Interventions : new studies in medieval culture; Interventions : new studies in medieval culture
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780814211526; 9780814292518
Subjects: Alliteration; History and criticism; English poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-253) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond the backwater : alliterative revivalism and nationalist fantasy; title: Cross-channel becomings-animal : primal courtliness in Guillaume de Palerne and William of Palerne; title: Destabilizing Arthurian empire : gender and anxiety in alliterative texts of the militarized midlands; title: Borderland subversions : anti-imperial energies in the Awntyrs off Arthure and Golagros and Gawane; title: Bags of books and books as bags : political protest, communications technologies, and the Piers Plowman tradition.