ENGL60121 Medievalisms
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Week Seminar
1 Medievalism: An Introduction. Umberto Eco, “Dreaming the Middle Ages,” in Travels in Hyperreality. DOM / AB
2 Rylands session. DOM / AB
3 Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part I. AB
4 Spenser, Faerie Queene book I; Dedication to Queen Elizabeth; A Letter of the Authors to Sir Walter Raleigh. AB
5 Chaucer rediscovered: Dryden and the Eighteenth Century. DOM
6 The Romantic Revival: Percy; Walpole, Castle of Otranto. DOM
7 Romantics: Chatterton, Poems; Coleridge, Christabel. DOM
8 Romantics: Keats's Eve of St Agnes; Isabella, or The Pot of Basil; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; [Lines] Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer's 'The Floure and the Leafe'; Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets (excerpts). AB
9 19th century: Scott, Ivanhoe. DOM
10 Victoriana: Tennyson, Idylls. AB
11 Medievalism and Orientalism. Felicia Hemans, The Crusader. AB
12 Contemporary Medievalisms: Eco, The Name of the Rose (novel, extract); The Name of the Rose (film). DOM / AB
Primary reading: Hugh Maclean and Anne Lake Prescott, eds, Edmund Spenser’s Poetry. Norton, 1993; Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, ed. Graham Tulloch. Penguin, 2000; William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, ed. Norman Sanders. Penguin, 2005; Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King, ed. by J. M. Gray. Penguin, 1983; Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, ed Michael Gamer. Penguin, 2001. Read also the following poems, in a recent edition of your choice: Keats's Eve of St Agnes; Isabella, or The Pot of Basil; La Belle Dame Sans Merci; [Lines] Written on a Blank Space at the End of Chaucer's 'The Floure and the Leafe'; Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets.
Secondary reading:
Kathleen Biddick, The Shock of Medievalism. Duke University Press, 1998.
Alice Chandler, A Dream of Order: The Medieval Ideal in Nineteenth-Century English Literature. 1970; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971).
Michael Charlesworth, ed. and intro. The Gothic Revival 1720-1870: Literary Sources and Documents, vol. 2: Living the Gothic Revival
Umberto Eco, Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality. Vintage, 1995
John Ganim, Medievalism and Orientalism. Palgrave, 2005
Mark Girouard, The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman. Yale University Press, 1981
Arthur Johnston, Enchanted Ground: The Study of Medieval Romance in the Eighteenth Century. Athlone