Beschreibung:
Medievalisms surveys the critical field and sets the boundaries for future study, providing an essential background for literary study from the Medieval period through to the twenty-first century, exploring:
1. Medievalisms: The Magic of the Middle Ages 2. A Case Study of Dante: Naked Icons of Medievalism 3. Literary Medievalisms: Inventing Inspirations 4. "Medieval" Literature for Children and Young Adults: Fantasies of Innocence 5. King Arthur's and Robin Hood's Adventures in Medievalism: Mythic Masculinities (and Magical Femininities) 6. Movie Medievalisms: Five (or Six) Ways of Looking at an Anachronism 7. Medievalisms in Music and the Arts: Longing for Transcendence 8. Experiential Medievalisms: Reliving the Always Modern Middle Ages 9. Political Medievalisms: The Darkness of the Dark Ages