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M. J. Toswell - Medievalism in English Canadian Identity and Literature, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Medievalism in English Canadian Identity and Literature

Av M. J. Toswell

Del i serien Arc Medievalist

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Canada has a deep layer of medievalism embedded in its architecture, governance structures, and sociocultural bedrock. This volume distinguishes between Canadian medievalism and its closest neighbours, British and American medievalism, and argues that the ignored or unnoticed medievalism of English Canada derives from its foundation by United Empire Loyalists escaping to the north in the late eighteenth century.The book considers particular literary and cultural expressions of medievalism—including Gothic architecture, heraldry, ice hockey, and Samuel de Champlain’s lost astrolabe; and the work of Guy Gavriel Kay, Earle Birney, Robertson Davies, Louise Penny, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, and George Longmore—arguing that medievalism remains a potent force in Canadian national identity.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-08-31
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 540 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Arc Medievalist
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Arc Humanities Press
  • ISBN: 9781802702675
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Jane Toswell teaches Old English, medieval studies, speculative fiction, and medievalism in English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She publishes on early medieval psalters, Borges, Longfellow, and universities.

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M. J. Toswell’s study Medievalism in English Canadian Identity and Literature is very timely, since as a study of an “ethno-medievalism” (63) it shows the sustained interest in various settler colonial medievalisms of the past and in their present-day form. This study includes chapters that combine the past with the present, such as “Roots and Branches: Medievalism, Scholarship, History,” and those about the present alone, for example the discussion of Guy Gavriel Kay’s fantasy fiction or the chapter about Canadian editions, translations and renderings of Beowulf. The result is an in-depth analysis of how the European medieval past influenced Canada as a group of at first colonies of Britain (and of France) and then a culturally independent Dominion of the United Kingdom.[...]This book is very readable not only due to its very accessible style, but also because of the relevance of her discussion of things Canadian for other considerations of medievalism and careful consideration of various points. It is an exploration of CanLit and of Canadian culture in general that deserves attention from at least two different groups of scholars: scholars of medievalism and CanLit researchers, not to mention all those who have a more general interest in medievalist popular (and not only popular) culture. In addition to serving scholars, it is a study that can also be enjoyed.

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