M.J. Toswell, Medievalism in English Canadian Identity and Literature, ARC Humanities Press, 2025.
Cet ouvrage développe les particularités du médiévalisme canadien et son rôle dans la construction d’une identité nationale, en particulier par rapport à d’autres pays anglophones.
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.
Table des matières
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Four Case Studies in Material Culture
Chapter 2. Roots and Branches: Medievalism, Scholarship, History
Chapter 3. Historical Fantasy: Guy Gavriel Kay
Chapter 4. Two Twentieth-Century Titans: Earle Birney and Robertson Davies
Chapter 5. Translations of Beowulf
Chapter 6. The Medieval Modern in Canada Today
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index
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