The themes of tribalism and medievalism unite this wide-ranging collection of essays.
Essays address queer medievalisms in and around Gwen Lally’s historical pageants and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness; Robert Glück’s 1994 novel Margery Kempe; and forms of gender tribalism in and around Josephine Butler’s Catharine of Siena: A Biography. Gender is further explored alongside the central theme, with surveys of tribal gendering of masculinity in C. S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian and its film; tribalism in medievalist bandits beyond Robin Hood and his ‘merry’ band; and tribal gendering of femininity in the films Brave and Sleeping Beauty. There are also contributions on colonialist tribalism in the staging of Camelot in Richard E. Grant’s film Wah-Wah; nationalistic tribalism in German pride, refracted through American frontier attitudes towards Native Americans; tribal perspectives of Native Americans in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar Tapestry; the death of Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie as an act that stirs fans’ tribal passions; and Carolingian legends as both reflecting and superseding tribal affiliations in twentieth-century America.
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Preface – Karl Fugelso
1. ‘Hair Cut Short like a Mediæval Page’: Queer Medievalisms in Gwen Lally’s Historical Pageants and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928) – Emma Nuding
2. ‘I thought I would be a Chaucerian’: Robert Glück, the Medievalism of New Narrative, and Margery Kempe – Christopher Queen
3. ‘I Will Send to Them Women’: Josephine Butler’s Catharine of Siena: A Biography (1878), Female Food Abstinence, and Victorian Feminist Medievalism – Kalina Janeva
4. ‘Noble Maiden Fair’: Music and the Construction of Gender in Disney/Pixar’s Brave and Disney’s Sleeping Beauty – Anna Steppler
5. Becoming a Man in Narnia: Adaptation, Medievalism, and Masculinity in Prince Caspian – Ann F. Howey
6. ‘Where Men Lived After the Manner of Beasts’: Bandits in Medieval Worlds – James Robert Burns
The Musical Camelot and Colonial Medieval Tribalism in Richard E. Grant’s 2005 Film Wah-Wah – Kevin J. Harty
7. Narratives of Belonging: Arminius and Autochthony between the Minnesota Prairie and German Forests – Ryan Hellenbrand and Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
8. King Arthur and Imagined Indians: The Entanglement of Medievalist and Indigenous Elements in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar Tapestry – Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun
9. Arthurian Legend and the Death of Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie (1986) – Scott Manning
10. Laughing at a Carolingian Legacy: Medievalism and Charlemagne Legends in Twentieth-Century America – Dana M. Polanichka