Representing difference in the medieval and modern orientalist romance

Burge, Amy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-7779 2016. Representing difference in the medieval and modern orientalist romance. The New Middle Ages, Palgrave Macmillan. 10.1007/978-1-137-59356-6

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Abstract

This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:	9781137601315
Funders:	AHRC
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2022 09:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/105700

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