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Author(s): Stephanie Trigg
ISBN(s): 9782503517025, 2503517021
Edition: Illustrated
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Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 2503517021
ISBN 13: 9782503517025
Author: Stephanie Trigg

This collection opens up a new field of academic and general interest: Australian medievalism. That is, the heritage and continuing influence of medieval and gothic themes, ideas and cultural practices. Geographically removed from Europe, and distinguished by its eighteenth-century colonial settlement, Australia is a fascinating testing-ground on which to explore the cultural residues of medieval and gothic tradition. These traditions take a distinctive form, once they have been ‘transported’ to a different topographical setting, and a cultural context whose relationship with Europe has always been dynamic and troubled.

Early colonists attempted to make the unfamiliar landscape of Australia familiar by inscribing it with European traditions: since then, a diverse range of responses and attitudes to the medieval and gothic past have been played out in Australian culture, from traditional forms of historical reconstruction through to playful postmodernist pastiche.

These essays examine the early narratives of Australian ‘discovery’ and the settlement of what was perceived as a hostile, gothic environment; exercises of medieval revivalism and association consonant with the British nineteenth-century rediscovery of chivalric ideals and aesthetic, spiritual and architectural practices and models; the conscious invocation and interrogation of medieval and gothic tropes in Australian fiction and poetry, including children’s literature; the transformation of those tropes in fantasy, role-playing games and subcultural groups; and finally, the implication of the medieval past for discussions of Australian nationalism.

Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Defining Medievalism and the Gothic in Australia

  • Concepts and Contexts

  • Australian Cultural Landscape and Historical Background

2. Tracing Medievalism in Australian Literature and Art

  • Early Australian Medievalist Expressions

  • Influences of European Medievalism

  • Adaptations and Reinterpretations

3. Gothic Tropes and Themes in Australian Writing

  • Gothic Landscapes and the Australian Environment

  • Fear, the Unknown, and the Other

  • Identity and Alienation in Gothic Narratives

4. Architecture and the Gothic Revival in Australia

  • Ecclesiastical Architecture

  • Residential and Public Buildings

  • Symbolism and Cultural Significance

5. Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Popular Culture

  • Film and Television

  • Music and Performance

  • Contemporary Visual Arts

6. Postcolonial Perspectives on Medievalism and the Gothic

  • Colonial Legacies and Indigenous Responses

  • Reclaiming the Gothic in Australian Identity

  • Critical Approaches

7. Case Studies and Key Figures

  • Prominent Australian Writers and Artists

  • Notable Works and Their Impact

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