Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood (en Inglés)
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The essays in this volume consider what is original and distinctive about the manifestation of medievalism in Canadian literature and its origins and its subsequent growth and development: from the first novel published in Canada written by a Canadian-born author, Julia Beckwith Hart's St Ursula's Convent (1824), to the recent work of the best-selling novelist Patrick DeWitt (Undermajordomo Minor, published in 2015). Topics addressed include the strong strain of medievalist fantasy itself in the work of the young-adult author Kit Pearson, and the longer novels of Charles de Lint, Steven Erikson, and Guy Gavriel Kay; the medievalist inclinations of Archibald Lampman and W.W. Campbell, well-known nineteenth-century Canadian poets; and the often-studied Wacousta by John Richardson, first published in 1832. Chapters also cover early Canadian periodicals' engagement with orientalist medievalism; and works by twentieth-century writers such as the irrepressible Earle Birney, the witty and intellectual Robertson Davies, and the fascinating and learned Margaret Atwood.M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at the University of Western Ontario, ANNA CZARNOWUS is a Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice.Contributors: D.M.R. Bentley, Agnieszka Klis-Brodowska, Anna Czarnowus, Brian Johnson, Laurel Ryan, David Watt, M.J. Toswell, Dominika Ruszkiewicz, Cory Rushton, Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun, Ewa Drab, and Michael Fox.Table of ContentsIntroduction: English Canadian Medievalism - Jane Toswell and Anna Czarnowus"Men of the North": Archibald Lampman's Use of Incidents in the Lives of Medieval Monarchs and Aristocrats - David Bentley"Going Back to the Middle Ages": Tracing Medievalism in Julia Beckwith Hart's St. Ursula's Convent and John Richardson's Wacousta - Agnieszka Klis-BrodowskaJohn Richardson's Wacousta and the Transfer of Medievalist Romance - Anna CzarnowusA Canadian Caliban in King Arthur's Court: Materialist Medievalism and Northern Gothic in William Wilfred Campbell's Mordred - Brian JohnsonOrientalist Medievalism in Early Canadian Periodicals - Laurel RyanThe Collegiate Gothic: Legitimacy and Inheritance in Robertson Davies' The Rebel Angels - David WattEarle Birney as Public Poet: a Canadian Chaucer? - Jane Toswell"That's what you get for being food": Margaret Atwood's Symbolic Cannibalism - Dominika RuszkiewiczLost in Allegory: Grief and Chivalry in Kit Pearson's A Perfect, Gentle Knight - Cory RushtonRemembering the Romance: Medievalist Romance in Fantasy Fiction by Charles de Lint and Guy Gavriel Kay - Sylwia Borowska-SzerszunMedievalisms and Romance Traditions in Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel - Ewa DrabThe Medieval Methods of Patrick DeWitt: Undermajordomo Minor - Michael Fox
