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1 online resource (xii, 521 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-498) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: In the beginning was romance ... -- Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the genesis of medieval romance: Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the kings of Britain -- The romance of England: Richard Coer de Lyon and the politics of race, religion, sexuality, and nation -- Warring against modernity: masculinity and chivalry in crisis; or, the alliterative Morte Arthure's romance anatomy of the Crusades -- Beauty and the East, a modern love story: women, children, and imagined communities in The man of law's tale and its others -- Eye on the world: Mandeville's pleasure zones; or, cartography, anthropology, and medieval travel romance. |
| Summary |
Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of ""race"" and ""nation"" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned. Drawing on feminist and gender theory, as well as cultural analyses of race, class, and colonialism, this provocative book revises our understanding of the beginnings of the nine hundred-year-old cul. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Romances, English -- History and criticism.
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Romances, English. |
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Politics and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Literature and society. |
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature. |
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Crusades in literature.
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Crusades in literature. |
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Culture in literature.
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Culture in literature. |
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Magic in literature.
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Magic in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heng, Geraldine. Empire of magic. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003 0231125267 0231125275 (DLC) 2002034894 (OCoLC)50669756 |
| ISBN |
023150067X (electronic book) |
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9780231500678 (electronic book) |
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0231125267 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231125275 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231125260 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231125277 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
| Music No. |
EB00639054 Recorded Books |
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