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OverviewThe United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites that permeate its self-announced republican landscapes and cities. Today, American-built medievalisms continue to shape the nation's communities, collapsing the binaries between past and present, medieval and modern, European and American. The volume's chapters visit the nation's many medieval-inspired spaces, from Sherwood Forest in Texas to California's San Andreas Fault. Stops are made in New York City's churches, Boston's gardens, Philadelphia's Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Orlando's Magic Kingdom, Appalachian highways, Minnesota's Viking Villages, New Orleans's Mardi Gras, and the Las Vegas Strip. As the editors and their fellow essayists take the reader on this cross-country trip across the United States, they ponder the cultural work done by the nation's medievalized spaces. In its exploration of a seemingly distant period, this collection challenges the underexamined legacy of medievalism on the western side of the Atlantic. Full of intriguing case studies and reflections, this book is informative reading for anyone interested in the contemporary vestiges of the Middle Ages. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tison Pugh , Susan AronsteinPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9781487525088ISBN 10: 1487525087 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 20 August 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is a book I plan to pack in my suitcase. It is a map of the landscape of a secret medieval America; chapters on gardens, theme parks, cityscapes, and art are by some of the most original and interesting scholars studying our fantasies of a premodern past. This is as close as scholarship gets to magical realism. - John M. Ganim, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, and author of Medievalism and Orientalism. This is the rare medievalism-studies collection whose sum is even greater than its parts, each of which is terrific in and of itself. Every one of these essays shines a brilliant light on the many ways the Middle Ages continue to shape the world around us, particularly through lieux d'imagination, through places that invite us to imagine the medieval past in such a way as to confirm our myths about it - and about ourselves. - Karl Fugelso, Professor and Chair of Art History, Towson University, and Editor-in-Chief for Studies in Medievalism Author InformationTison Pugh is Pegasus Professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. Susan Aronstein is a professor of English and Honors at the University of Wyoming. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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