Scott Corbet Riley

New World Medievalisms (eBook, PDF)

The Middle Ages in the American Cultural Imaginary

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how the European Middle Ages has been used and received in a variety of American cultural contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805435464
• Artikelnr.: 72531791

Autorenporträt

SCOTT CORBET RILEY holds a Ph.D. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz and currently teaches Latin at Lakeside School in Seattle, Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The New World Crusades: British Colonial Charters
Pilgrim-Crusaders
and the Transatlantic Captivity Narrative 2. Errant in the Wilderness: The Naming of California
Don Quixote's America
and Other Geographic Fantasies 3. Mad Trist: American Anglo-Saxonism
James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales
and Edgar Allan Poe's Subversive Medievalism 4. The Time Machine in the Garden: Frontier Medievalisms
Owen Wister's The Virginian
and Mark Twain's Apophatic America 5. The Persistent Medieval: T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Ezra Pound's The Cantos
and William Faulkner's Organic Medievalism 6. The Spectacle of the Medieval: America's New Feudalism
HBO's Game of Thrones
and Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Novels Conclusion Bibliography