Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie - From Medievalism to Early Modernism: Adapting the English Past

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Names: Gerzic, Marina, editor. | Norrie, Aidan, editor.

Title: From medievalism to early-modernism: adapting the English past / edited by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie.

Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture; 11 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2018037042 (print) | LCCN 2018046872 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429400544 (Master) | ISBN 9780429683015 (Pdf) | ISBN 9780429683008 (Epub) | ISBN 9780429682995 (Mobi) | ISBN 9781138366572 | ISBN 9781138366572 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429400544 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: Literature, ModernMedieval influences. | Medievalism in literature. | Middle Ages in literature. | Literature, MedievalAppreciation. | Literature and historyEngland. | EnglandIn literature.

Classification: LCC PN56.M534 (ebook) | LCC PN56.M534 F76 2019 (print) | DDC 809/.933582dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018037042

ISBN: 978-1-138-36657-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-40054-4 (ebk)

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Annie Blachly is currently undertaking her PhD at Monash University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Diploma of Education (History and English) from Monash University. Prior to returning to her studies, Annie was a high school English teacher. Her thesis brings together a social and cultural history of Oxford with the burgeoning areas of the history of emotions, the history of violence, and digital mapping techniques.

Sheila T. Cavanagh is Professor of English at Emory University. Founding Director of the World Shakespeare Project (www.worldshakespeareproject.org) and Director of Emorys Year of Shakespeare (20162017), she was recently Fulbright/Global Shakespeare Distinguished Chair in the UK. Author of Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires: Female Sexuality in the Faerie Queene (Indiana University Press, 1994) and Cherished Torment: the Emotional Geography of Lady Mary Wroths Urania (Duquesne University Press, 2001), she has published widely in the fields of pedagogy and Renaissance literature.

Michael Durrant is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Bangor University. His first monograph, The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills: The Lives, Transformations, and Afterlives of a Seventeenth Century Printer, is due for publication with Manchester University Press in 2019, and focuses on the life and afterlives of the printer-publisher Henry Hills (c. 16251688/9).

Marina Gerzic works for the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Western Australia in both research and administrative roles. She also works as the Executive Administrator for the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and as the editorial assistant for the academic journal Parergon. She has published articles on film and adaptation theory, Shakespeare, pedagogy, cinematic music, cultural studies, science fiction, comics and graphic novels, and childrens literature. Marina is currently developing a monograph on depictions of Richard III on stage, page, film, and other media, as well as an edited collection on the topic of irreverence and play in Shakespearean adaptations with Aidan Norrie.

Sarah Gordon is Associate Professor of French at Utah State University. She earned her PhD at Washington University in St Louis, and her MPhil at Oxford University. She is the author of Culinary Comedy in Medieval French Literature (Purdue University Press, 2007) and other interdisciplinary publications on Arthurian literature and medieval literature and culture. She has published in Arthuriana and Arthurian Literature, and regularly teaches in, and publishes on, film studies.

Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of Shakespeare, of Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, and of Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama. She co-organises the annual Othellos Island conference on Cyprus (http://www.othellosisland.org). Her most recent monograph is From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance Stage (ARC Humanities Press, 2017). She has published three articles on Harry Potter, and co-supervised a PhD on it.

Polina Ignatova has degrees in Diplomacy and Regional Studies from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and in Medieval History from Kings College, London. She is currently completing her PhD at Lancaster University on the history of walking dead accounts, with particular focus on medieval England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

Martin Laidlaw is currently under examination for a PhD thesis titled Anticipating Reformist Agenda in the Literature of the Middle Ages at the University of Dundee, and acts as tutor at Newcastle University. Awarded the Philippa Maddern Travel Prize in 2015 and a Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Cohort Development Grant in 2017, he is the founder of ScotMEMS, Scotlands Medieval and Early-Modern Postgraduate research network. His research interests include the Reformist agenda in medieval poetry, and poverty and poor relief in the Piers Plowman tradition.

Hilary Jane Locke is completing her Master of Philosophy in History at the University of Adelaide. Her thesis focuses on the presence of chivalry and courtly love in the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII, and how this affected politics, performance, gender relations, and culture. Her other research interests include modern history, historical fiction, popular culture and public history, masculinity, and sexuality. Hilary also likes foxes, and is a keen tea drinker.

Iain A. MacInnes is Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of the Highlands and Islands. His primary research focuses on fourteenth-century Scottish military history, and his monograph, Scotlands Second War of Independence, 13321357 (Boydell Press, 2016), provides a detailed consideration of this conflict. He is currently exploring new areas of research, including graphic novel depictions of the Middle Ages, as well as the medieval-like world of Game of Thrones.

Simone Celine Marshall is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research focuses on later interpretations of medieval literature, especially the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Currently, she is working on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century continuations of Chaucers