The Shock of Medievalism
- Author / Editor
- Biddick, Kathleen.
The Shock of Medievalism
- Published
- Durham, N. C., and London : Duke University Press, 1998.
- Physical Description
- x, 315 pp.
- Description
- Explores the "contemporary consequences of the methods used to initiate medieval studies as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century," particularly how the discipline is "still intimately bound" to the "fathers" of medieval studies.
- Includes discussion of WBPT as medieval discourse that resists or disrupts the distinction between commentary and documentary writing theorized by Steven Justice.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.