Kenneth A. Loparo 
Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism 

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.

Innehållsförteckning

Recasting the Courtly: Translations of Medieval Language and Form in the Nineteenth Century ’Though Females are Forbidden to Interfere in Politics’: War, Medievalism, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer ’It’s Strictly the Woman’s Part and Men Understand it So’: Romance, Gender and the Spectacle of the Crimean The End of Chivalry?: Joan of Arc and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer Queenship, Chivalry and ’Queenly’ Women in the Age of Victoria Guinevere: The Medieval Queen in the Nineteenth Century Re-reading Guinevere: Women Illustrators, Tennyson and Morris

Om författaren

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