Title Affective medievalism : love, abjection and discontent / Thomas A. Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg

Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (154 pages) Series Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 21 Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 21. Contents Introduction: Medieval and medievalist practice -- The space of time and the medievalist imaginary -- Wonderful things -- Fear, error and death: The abjection of the Middle Ages -- Loving the past -- Discontent in the age of mechanical reproduction Summary This work argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-147) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 3, 2018) Subject Middle Ages -- Historiography. Medievalism. Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Middle Ages in literature. Medieval Revival. Medievalism (cultural movement) HISTORY -- World. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval Middle Ages in literature Middle Ages -- Historiography Literature, Medieval -- Theory, etc. Medievalism Middle Ages Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Trigg, Stephanie, author. ISBN 9781526126870 1526126877 9781526142009 1526142007

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