Food and feast in premodern outlaw tales / edited by Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo.
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TextSeries: Outlaws in literature, history, and culture; vol 8Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781000372137; 1000372138; 0429275188; 9781000372106; 1000372103; 9780429275180Subject(s): 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 -- Great Britain -- History and criticism | HISTORY / General | HISTORY / Europe / General | HISTORY / Social HistoryDDC classification: 364.101/4 LOC classification: HV6441Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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