Thomas A. Prendergast, Stephanie Trigg

Affective medievalism

Love, abjection and discontent

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book 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. -- .

Produktdetails

• Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781526126863
• ISBN-10: 1526126869
• Artikelnr.: 52715809

Autorenporträt

Thomas A. Prendergast is Professor of English at the College of Wooster Stephanie Trigg is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Medieval and medievalist practice 1 The space of time and the
medievalist imaginary 2 Wonderful things 3 Fear, error and death: The
abjection of the Middle Ages 4 Loving the past 5 Discontent in the age of
mechanical reproduction Bibliography Index