Medieval Futures and the Postwork Romance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3204533 |
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| Authors | William Revere (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 145-172 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2024.a932374 |
| OpenAlex | W4400738936 |
| Language | EN |
This essay explores speculative resources in the premodern past as displayed in some contemporary anglophone fiction, with a focus on novels by Octavia Butler and Margaret Atwood. Among its retrievals, speculative medievalism offers a critical vantage point on ruinous, "neofeudal" futures by fashioning a form of romance narrative centered on workers. The late-fourteenth century English poem Piers Plowman is looked to as a premodern speculative precursor and interlocutor for such versions of the medieval past
Art · Economics · Financial economics · Futures contract · Literature · Romance · History · Medieval Literature and History
| Highly cited | No |
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