Alliterative Revivals

by Christine Chism

Alliterative Revivals is the first full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism, feminism, performance studies, and postcolonial theory, Christine Chism argues that these poems animate British history by reviving and acknowledging potentially threatening figures from the medieval past--pagan judges, primeval giants, Greek knights, Jewish forefathers, Egyptian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812236556
• ISBN13: 9780812236552
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"