| Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Broome Saunders, Clare (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230607934 ISBN-13: 9780230607934 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2009 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.992 |
| LCCN: 2009278860 |
| Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.79 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 of Joan 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. |