ANST - Medievalism in American Culture

[Charlene Charette]

This was posted to another list I'm on.  Sounds interesting.

--Perronnelle


> This is a call for papers for a panel that will be proposed for the ASA
> Conference in Montreal, October 28-31, 1999.
>
> Diagnosing the "Sir Walter Disease":  Medievalism in American Culture.  In
> a country lacking its own medieval past, where according to Hawthorne,
> "there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy
> wrong," the medieval revival flourished and forged bonds between
> literature and the arts.  This interdisciplinary session will explore all
> forms of American medievalism in architecture, painting, sculpture,
> decorative arts, literature, history, and popular culture.  How have
> Americans chosen to represent the medieval past and why?  How is
> medievalism related to class, spectacle, memory, religion, and sexuality?
> The panel will address the multivalent meanings of the American medieval
> revival, or what Twain called the "Sir Walter Disease."  Papers dealing
> with all time periods and methodologies are welcome, as are papers dealing
> with Canadian medievalism.  Please send a one-page abstract and brief CV
> by January 10, 1999 to Kerry Dean, P. O. Box 15318, Boston, MA 02215;
> email:  kdean at bu.edu.
>
> Kerry Dean
> <kdean at bu.edu>

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