IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1510: Medievalism and Writing National Literatures in the 19th Century
Thursday 15 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
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| Organiser: | Chris Jones, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Moderator/Chair: | Simon MacLean, Department of History, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1510-a | Writing National Literary History: François Villon and Charles d'Orléans in 19th-Century France (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1510-b | Outback Pre-Raphaelites: Medievalism and Orientalism in 19th-Century Australian Women's Fiction (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1510-c | When Was Anglo-Saxon Poetry?: Writing English Literary History in the 19th and 21st Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | This session will offer three specific case studies of the use of medieval literature in writing self-consciously 'national' literature and literary histories in the 19th century. The session will attend to the negotiation of discontinuities and continuities between the medieval and the modern during a period often assumed to be the high-water mark of self-conscious nationalism, noting how medievalizing narratives alter and adapt as they travel across the globe and through history. Inevitably, 'medieval' as a category of literary history will be called into question, and a more open, fluid canon of medieval literature will be posited. |