Overview

Revising the histories of medievalism—the processes by which the Middle Ages are reimagined in later moments to varied political, social, and cultural ends—is critical to the field’s turn away from its oppressive roots and towards a richer conception of the past. Grounded in intersectional feminist interpretive frameworks, Women’s Restorative Medievalisms examines how contemporary women writers engage the premodern past to animate intertwined histories of oppression and resistance in service of visionary futures. These medievalisms create temporal dialogue between the past and the present to restore the voices of women who have been overlooked in medieval studies and medievalism studies. The book’s contemporary focus will appeal both to students and medieval studies scholars who seek to understand the field’s present value amid the backlash of patriarchal, white supremacist power.

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Author:   Suzanne M. Edwards (Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Lehigh University) ,  Matthew X. Vernon (Associate Professor of English Literature, University of California-Davis)
Publisher:   Arc Humanities Press
Imprint:   Arc Humanities Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781802701623

ISBN 10:   1802701621
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   31 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction. Restoring Forgotten Pasts for Unimagined Futures, by Suzanne M. Edwards and Matthew X. Vernon Part 1. Founding Counterstories Chapter 1. Plantation Labour and Counter-Memory in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée, by Jonathan Hsy Chapter 2. Tradition and the Individual (Black) Talent: Eliot, Malory, Marshall, by Kathy Lavezzo Chapter 3. Dilapidated Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Anniad”, by Seamus Dwyer and Candace Barrington Part 2. New Topographies and Temporalities Chapter 4. Periodization and Restoring Women’s Stories in Forest of Enchantments and Juliet’s Nurse, by Usha Vishnuvajjala Chapter 5. N’ya-hap me-ye-moom: Chaucer, California, and the Literary Landscapes of Bailey’s Café, by Jenny Adams Part 3. Telling Silences Chapter 6. Antisemitism as Entertainment in the Medieval Mystery Novel, by Samantha Katz Seal Chapter 7. 1492 in Historical Fiction: Manuscripts, Memory, and Loss, by Sara V. Torres Chapter 8. The Transgender Paladin of Charlemagne, by M. W. Bychowski Part 4. Critical Creativity Chapter 9. Feminist Poetic Encounter in Pattie McCarthy’s margerykempething, by Carissa M. Harris Chapter 10. Not-Knowing in Fiction and Scholarship, by Kim Zarins Index

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Suzanne M. Edwards is Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Lehigh University. She is the author of The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature (2016) and articles on Gloria Naylor’s medievalism. Matthew X. Vernon is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Davis. His first book, The Black Middle Ages (2018), explores the understudied relationship between medievalism and Blackness in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.

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