Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Joy, Eileen A., Myra J. Seaman, Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey, eds.
Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 305 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Ten essays by various authors, along with a foreword, an introduction, an "otherword," and an afterword. Topics range from high to low culture and explore relationships between reality and performance, including comparisons of medieval literature to contemporary reality television; analyses of truth claims in fiction, history, and medieval studies; and examinations of modern politics through medieval history and literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
- Contributor
- Seaman, Myra J., ed.
- Bell, Kimberly K., ed.
- Ramsey, Mary K., ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.