Material Remains

Reading the Past in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature

By: Jan-Peer Hartmann (Editor)

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Hardcover | 13 August 2021

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308 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06

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Medieval and early modern literature was fascinated with the material remains of the past. Scenes involving the discovery, description, circulation, or contemplation of archaeological objects can be found in texts ranging from hagiography to elegiac poetry, from historiography to romance--across regions and periods. This volume gathers voices to explore the ways in which these texts employ descriptions of objects from the past to produce aesthetic and literary responses to questions of historicity and the epistemological conditions of historical knowledge.
The contributions to Material Remains: Reading the Past in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature examine the understanding and experience of temporality as registered through the representation of found objects. From Beowulf and King Arthur to Richard III, Roger de Norton, and more, these essays reproduce the thrill of the archaeological find and generate new forms of historical understanding beyond the established narratives that reinforce modern forms of periodizing the Middle Ages.
List of Contributors
Neil Cartlidge, Roberta Frank, Lori Ann Garner, Jonathan Gil Harris, Jan-Peer Hartmann, John Hines, Naomi Howell, Andrew Hui, Andrew James Johnston, Sarah Salih, Philip Schwyzer

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"I was inspired by what this volume accomplishes, not only in its plethora of intersections between material culture and literature but also its demonstrations of how these intersections encourage us--indeed, oblige us--to breach 'period' barriers between early and late medieval, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and often enough the centuries beyond." --Andrew Galloway, author of Medieval Literature and Culture: A Student Guide
"The range is admirably wide, from early Anglo-Saxon writing to early modern, a width that answers to the volume's own resistance to historical alterity: these are stories that can be told only within long chronologies. The objects, as recounted in these stories of invention, are wonderfully alive, giving a good name to Thing Theory." --James Simpson, author of Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism

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