Women writers and nineteenth-century medievalisme] / Clare Broome Saunders
- 作者： Saunders, Clare Broome
- 出版： New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2009
- 叢書名： Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
- 主題： 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.
- ISBN： 9780230618572 (Eelectronic bk.) 、 023061857X (Eelectronic bk.)
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- 一般註：Description based on print version record
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index 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 ofJoan 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
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- 系統號： 005162336 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Saunders uniquely explores how women poets, biographers, historians, and visual artists used medieval motifs, forms, and settings to enable them to comment more freely on controversial contemporary issues, such as war and gender roles.
內容註
Recasting the courtly : translations of Medieval language and form in the nineteenth century -- "Though females are forbidden to interfere in politics" : war, medievalism, and the nineteenth-century woman writer -- "It's strictly the woman's part and men understand it so" : romance, gender, and the spectacle of the Crimean -- The end of chivalry? : Joan of Arc and the nineteenth-century woman writer -- Queenship, chivalry, and "queenly" women in the age of Victoria -- Guinevere : the Medieval queen in the nineteenth-century -- Rereading Guinevere : women illustrators, Tennyson, and Morris