The Post-Historical Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Scala, Sylvia Federico

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of historicism. Analyzing the legacy of Marxist and materialist theory on medieval literary criticism, the collection offers new ways of reading texts historically. Drawing upon aesthetic, ethical, and cultural vantage points and methods, these essays demonstrate that a variety of approaches and theories are “historical” and can change what it means to historicize medieval literature. By defining our post-historical moment in medieval English literary studies in terms of new possibilities, this collection will have broad appeal to those interested in the English Middle Ages, history, culture, and reading itself.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Getting Post-Historical......Page 14
1 Amorous Dispossessions: Knowledge, Desire, and the Poet’s Dead Body......Page 26
2 Time Out of Memory......Page 50
3 Historicism after Historicism......Page 76
4 (Dis)Continuity: A History of Dreaming......Page 100
5 The Negative Erotics of Medievalism......Page 130
6 Naked Chaucer......Page 152
7 Biography after Historicism: The Harley Lyrics, the Hereford Map, and the Life of Roger De Breynton......Page 174
8 The Gender of Historicism......Page 204
9 From Clio to JHMuse©: Literacy and the Muse of Digitalia......Page 228
Notes on Contributors......Page 242
B......Page 244
D......Page 245
G......Page 246
H......Page 247
M......Page 248
S......Page 249
Z......Page 250