This book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, arguing that the idea of the medieval past is central to the work of novelists and directors interested in embodiment and vulnerability. Careful and illuminating analysis of particular moments in fiction, film, and political discourse dismantles the false binary between popular and intellectual medievalisms, which rests on gendered understandings of genre and audience, while demonstrating that masculinist or patriarchal medievalisms have an equal but understudied counterpart.
The book's first three chapters cover Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and its afterlives, the final works of Virginia Woolf, and late twentieth-century film and music videos from the United States. The final chapter examines the treatment of women's bodies and vulnerability in both political theory and recent electoral politics, arguing that they share a common thread of misogyny rooted in the idea of the medieval past, and that one way to challenge that misogyny is by looking at complex feminist engagements with that same past, both real and imagined.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2024
Copyrightjahr
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-64189-383-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-80270-153-1
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Arc Medievalist
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
142
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 18
Chapter 1: Nested Medievalisms and Affected Bodies in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey Kein Zugriff Seiten 19 - 44
Chapter 2: Feminism and Medievalism in Woolf’s Final Works Kein Zugriff Seiten 45 - 66
Chapter 3: Medievalism as aFeminist Sanctuary in the late Twentieth Century Kein Zugriff Seiten 67 - 94
Chapter 4: Chaucer, Vulnerable Bodies, Somatophobia, and Theory Kein Zugriff Seiten 95 - 126
Conclusion: Feminisms and Medievalisms Kein Zugriff Seiten 127 - 128
