Helen Waddell Reassessed

New Readings

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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The Irish writer and critic Helen Waddell burst onto the publishing scene of the 1920s and 1930s as a phenomenon, a scholar whose books became instant bestsellers. Cross-fertilizing academic research with a vivid imagination, her literary history The Wandering Scholars explores the secular joys of the scholares vagantes, an emotional undercurrent traceable throughout the ascetic centuries. Waddell’s translations of Mediaeval Latin Lyrics read as poems in their own right; her novel, Peter Abelard, grounds the tragedy of the famous lovers Heloise and Abelard in the woof and warp of medieval humanism. At the time, the academy acknowledged her learning but deemed her methods insufficiently objective. Modern scholarship has finally caught up with Waddell, and the essays in this volume reassess her achievement from the perspectives of medieval, English, cultural and Irish studies. They investigate this romantic’s modernist insights and demonstrate how her Irish roots were reinscribed in her cross-cultural, transnational humanism. They examine her scepticism regarding conventional historiography and her cutting-edge engagement with medieval theology. They explore the range of her writings, from adaptations of ancient Chinese lyrics through translations from medieval Latin, interacting allusively with cultural ideologies and literary texts. These new readings show how Waddell’s accessible, imaginative, scholarly works continually challenge academic and literary orthodoxies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-12-12
Mått:150 x 225 x 20 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:342
Förlag:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
ISBN:9783034309783

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Jennifer FitzGerald taught in the School of English, Queen’s University Belfast from 1975 to 2002 and is currently attached to the Department of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University. Her intellectual biography Helen Waddell and Maude Clarke: Irishwomen, Friends and Scholars was published by Peter Lang in 2012.

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«[T]his book is a delight to read, full of unpretentious scholarship, of exact enthusiasms and lively and suggestive judgements.» (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Óenach: Journal of the Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Ireland 6.1, 2014)

Innehållsförteckning

Contents: Constant J. Mews: Helen Waddell and Heloise: The Continuity of a Learned Tradition – Charles Lock: Scholar of the Dark: Helen Waddell and the Middle Ages – Ann Buckley: Wandering Scholars and Saintly Cults: The Liturgical Legacy – Jennifer FitzGerald: Women, Love and Mime: The Evolution of The Wandering Scholars – Stephen Kelly: The Ghost of a Voice: Waddell’s Peter Abelard between Benjamin and Collingwood – Amanda Tucker: Reviving Helen Waddell’s Lost Decade: Ireland and the Transnational Imaginary – Norman Vance: Helen Waddell: Presbyterian Medievalist – Jennifer FitzGerald: Reading (into) The Wandering Scholars: The (Inter)textual Text – Louise Wasson: Women Scholars and Early Twentieth-Century Medievalism: Helen Waddell and Hope Emily Allen – Norman Vance: Writing Beyond Rome and Geneva – Helen Carr: Wandering Poets and the Spirit of Romance in Helen Waddell and Ezra Pound – David Burleigh: Chinese Originals: Helen Waddell and Arthur Waley – Nini Rodgers: Helen Waddell and the Victorian Family.