IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 119: Revival and Renewal: New Uses for Old Stories and Patterns in the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries
Monday 6 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands & Islands |
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| Organiser: | Victoria Whitworth, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands & Islands, Orkney |
| Moderator/Chair: | Farah Mendlesohn, Department of English & Media, Anglia Ruskin University |
| Paper 119-a | 'It is not in my book of the Morte d'Arthur': Florence Converse's Sir Launcelot (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 119-b | Arthur on the Cheap: Street Literature and the 19th-Century Arthurian Revival (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 119-c | Death, Memory, and George Bain's Commemorative Renewing of the Book of Kells (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Sculpture, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | These three papers address visual and narrative revivals and renewals of medieval themes in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, focussing on their reinvention for a mass audience and the motives of the writers and craftspeople responsible. Chapbooks reframed Arthurian narratives in rich ways for a much wider audience; Florence Converse rewrote Malory for a Sunday School readership, articulating political discontents; and the pioneering Celtic revival artist George Bain combined contemporary aesthetics with Insular art to articulate his philosophy of reinvention and renewal. |