Overview
- Focuses on literary texts relevant to hybridity
- Explores the supernatural in medieval texts
- Examines mixed ethnic identity in middle English literature
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural and its site can be located inside the human body’s unstable physical frame, living and dead, as much as in the cultural and social forces at work upon the human body politic at large. Hybridity is unlike other constructs of difference in that, while it is grounded in difference, hybridity points toward sameness. The four types of hybridity studied in medieval English literature show that hybridity can resolve the problems caused by difference. Understanding medieval hybridity can help us to deal with our own contemporary struggles with the mixtures of our own lives and societies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rosanne Gasse is Professor of English Literature at Brandon University, Canada. Her work has been published in journals such as The Chaucer Review, JEGP, and Enarratio and she is the Reviews Editor for The Canadian Journal of Native Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England
Authors: Rosanne P. Gasse
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31465-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31464-3Published: 05 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31467-4Due: 18 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-31465-0Published: 04 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 252
Topics: Medieval Literature, Literature, general, History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Philosophy