Food and feast in premodern outlaw tales /
edited by Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo.
- 1 online resource.
- Outlaws in literature, history, and culture; vol 8 .
"In Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales editors Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo gather eleven original studies examining scenes of food and feasting in premodern outlaw texts ranging from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries and forward to their cinematic adaptations. Along with fresh insights into the popular Robin Hood legend, these essays investigate the intersections of outlawry, food studies, and feasting in Old English, Middle English, and French outlaw narratives, Anglo-Scottish border ballads, early modern ballads and dramatic works, and cinematic medievalism. The range of critical and disciplinary approaches employed, including history, literary studies, cultural studies, food studies, gender studies, and film studies, highlights the inherently interdisciplinary nature of outlaw narratives. The overall volume offers an example of the ways in which examining a subject through interdisciplinary, cross-geographic and cross-temporal lenses can yield fresh insights; places canonic and well-known works in conversation with lesser-known texts to showcase the dynamic nature and cultural influence and impact of premodern outlaw tales; and presents an introductory foray into the intersection of literary and food studies in premodern contexts which will be of value and interest to specialists and a general audience, alike"--
9781000372137 1000372138 0429275188 9781000372106 1000372103 9780429275180
10.4324/9780429275180 doi
Outlaws--History.
Food--History.
Outlaws in literature.
Food in literature.
Food--Social aspects--History.
English literature--History and criticism.
French literature--History and criticism.
Ballads, English--History and criticism.--Great Britain
HISTORY / General
HISTORY / Europe / General
HISTORY / Social History
HV6441
364.101/4
"In Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales editors Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo gather eleven original studies examining scenes of food and feasting in premodern outlaw texts ranging from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries and forward to their cinematic adaptations. Along with fresh insights into the popular Robin Hood legend, these essays investigate the intersections of outlawry, food studies, and feasting in Old English, Middle English, and French outlaw narratives, Anglo-Scottish border ballads, early modern ballads and dramatic works, and cinematic medievalism. The range of critical and disciplinary approaches employed, including history, literary studies, cultural studies, food studies, gender studies, and film studies, highlights the inherently interdisciplinary nature of outlaw narratives. The overall volume offers an example of the ways in which examining a subject through interdisciplinary, cross-geographic and cross-temporal lenses can yield fresh insights; places canonic and well-known works in conversation with lesser-known texts to showcase the dynamic nature and cultural influence and impact of premodern outlaw tales; and presents an introductory foray into the intersection of literary and food studies in premodern contexts which will be of value and interest to specialists and a general audience, alike"--
9781000372137 1000372138 0429275188 9781000372106 1000372103 9780429275180
10.4324/9780429275180 doi
Outlaws--History.
Food--History.
Outlaws in literature.
Food in literature.
Food--Social aspects--History.
English literature--History and criticism.
French literature--History and criticism.
Ballads, English--History and criticism.--Great Britain
HISTORY / General
HISTORY / Europe / General
HISTORY / Social History
HV6441
364.101/4