IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 711: Late Romantic Medievalism: Text and Scholarship
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Cardiff University |
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| Organiser: | Rob Gossedge, School of English, Communication & Philosophy, Cardiff University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Helen Phillips, School of English, Communication & Philosophy, Cardiff University |
| Paper 711-a | Romantic Medievalism and Anne Bannerman's Prophecy of Merlin (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 711-b | Scott's Talisman and the Trauma of Antiquarianism (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 711-c | The Black-Letter Pursuits of the Roxburghe Club (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | These three papers will examine the interaction between scholarly and creative cultural production in the late romantic period. Katie Garner's paper interrogates the conflicted notion of medievalism in terms of the Romanticists' pre-occupation with the self and its seemingly contradictory articulation through the collective chivalric community of the past, and questions whether Romantic medievalism was a useful veil for radical articulations of selfhood, or a necessary shied from indecent exposure. Rob Gossedge's paper reads Scott's The Talisman in the context of both Scott's other crusader work, as well as recent historiographical and antiquarian interest in the crusades. Shayne Wilson's paper contextualises the Roxburghe Club's attitude to the 'Black-letter mania' of the period and challenges, through a study of their early editions of medieval MSS, the dismissal of the group as 'gentlemen antiquaries'. |