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Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism

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  • © 2009
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Authors:
  1. Clare Broome Saunders
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Part of the book series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters (19CMLL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Clare Broome Saunders
    Pages 1-9

  3. Recasting the Courtly: Translations of Medieval Language and Form in the Nineteenth Century

    • Clare Broome Saunders
    Pages 11-27

  4. “Though Females are Forbidden to Interfere in Politics”: War, Medievalism, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer

    • Clare Broome Saunders
    Pages 29-51

  5. “It’s Strictly the Woman’s Part and Men Understand It So”: Romance, Gender, and the Spectacle of the Crimean

    • Clare Broome Saunders
    Pages 53-77

  6. The End of Chivalry?: Joan of Arc and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer

    • Clare Broome Saunders
    Pages 79-102

  7. Queenship, Chivalry, and “Queenly” Women in the Age of Victoria

    • Clare Broome Saunders
    Pages 103-132

  8. Guinevere: The Medieval Queen in the Nineteenth Century

    • Clare Broome Saunders
    Pages 133-152

  9. Rereading Guinevere: Women Illustrators, Tennyson, and Morris

    • Clare Broome Saunders
    Pages 153-183

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 185-230
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About this book

Saunders uniquely explores how women poets, biographers, historians, and visual artists used medieval motifs, forms, and settings to enable them to comment more freely on controversial contemporary issues, such as war and gender roles.

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“Saunders has uncovered a wealth of material that will, I am sure, fascinate all students of the period.” (Richard Cronin, Victorian Studies, Vol. 52 (1), 2009)

About the author

Clare Broome Saunders teaches at the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford.

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