Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and Discontent

by Stephanie Trigg and Thomas Prendergast

Book Overview

This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism. Acknowledging that the medieval and medievalism are mutually constitutive, and that their texts can be read using similar strategies, it argues that medieval writers offer powerful models for the ways in which contemporary desire determines the constitution of the past. This desire can not only connect us with the past but can reconnect readers in the present...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526147998
• ISBN13: 9781526147998
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"