From Medievalism to Early-Modernism (eBook, ePUB)

Adapting the English Past
Redaktion: Gerzic, Marina; Norrie, Aidan

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Produktbeschreibung

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism-a new term introduced here-present in contemporary popular culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429683008
• Artikelnr.: 54673248

Autorenporträt

Marina Gerzic works for the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Western Australia, in both research and administrative roles. She also works as the Executive Administrator for the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and as the editorial assistant for the academic journal Parergon. She has published articles on film and adaptation theory, Shakespeare, pedagogy, cinematic music, cultural studies, science fiction, comics and graphic novels, and children's literature. Aidan Norrie is a historian of monarchy, and is currently a Chancellor's International Scholar in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at The University of Warwick. He is the editor, with Lisa Hopkins, of Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam University Press); and, with Mark Houlahan, of On the Edge of Early Modern English Drama (MIP University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: Medievalism and Early-Modernism in Adaptations of the
English Past
Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie
Section I: Cultural Medievalism and Early-Modernism
2. Wonder Woman and the Nine Ladies Worthy: The Male Gaze and what it takes
to be a 'Worthy Woman'
Simone Celine Marshall
3. The King, the Sword, and the Stone: The Recent Afterlives of King Arthur
Sarah Gordon
4. Brand Chaucer: The Poet and the Nation
Martin Laidlaw
5. Moving between Life and Death: Horror films and the Medieval Walking
Corpse
Polina Ignatova
6. From Cabaret to Gladiator: Refiguring Masculinity in Julie Taymor's
Titus
Marina Gerzic
7. "There's My Exchange": The Hogarth Shakespeare
Sheila T. Cavanagh
8. Bloody Brothers and Suffering Sisters: The Duchess of Malfi and Harry
Potter
Lisa Hopkins
Section II: Historical Medievalism and Early-Modernism
9. Playing in a Virtual Medieval World: Video Game Adaptations of England
through Role-play
Ben Redder
10. "I can piss on Calais from Dover": Adaptation and Medievalism in
Graphic Novel Depictions of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
Iain A. MacInnes
11. Beyond "tits and dragons": Medievalism, Medieval History, and
Perceptions in Game of Thrones
Hilary Jane Locke
12. Re-fashioning Richard III: Intertextuality, Fandom, and the (Mobile)
Body in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
Marina Gerzic
13. The Many Afterlives of Elizabeth Barton
Annie Blachly
14. The Queen, the Bishop, the Virgin, and the Cross: Catholicism versus
Protestantism in Elizabeth
Aidan Norrie
15. "Unseen but very evident": Ghosts, Hauntings, and the Civil War Past
Michael Durrant
Index