{"product_id":"poet-of-the-medieval-modern-reading-the-early-medieval-library-with-david-jones-paperback","title":"Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancesca Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe early Middle Ages provided twentieth-century poets with the material to re-imagine and rework local, religious, and national identities in their writing. \u003cem\u003ePoet of the Medieval Modern\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on a key figure within this tradition, the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974): representing the first extended study of the influence of early medieval English culture and history on Jones and his novel-length late modernist poem \u003cem\u003eThe Anathemata\u003c\/em\u003e (1952). Jones's second major poetic project after\u003cem\u003e In Parenthesis \u003c\/em\u003e(1937), \u003cem\u003eThe Anathemata\u003c\/em\u003e fuses Jones's visual and verbal arts to write a Catholic history of Britain as told through the history of man-as-artist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on unpublished archival material including manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and, most significantly, the marginalia from David Jones's Library, this volume reads with Jones in order to trouble the distinction between poetry and scholarship. Placing this underappreciated figure firmly at the centre of new developments in Modernist and Medieval Studies, \u003cem\u003ePoet of the Medieval Modern\u003c\/em\u003e brings the two fields into dialogue and argues that Jones uses the textual and material culture of the early Middle Ages--including Old English prose and poetry, Anglo-Latin hagiography, early medieval stone sculpture, manuscripts, and historiography--to re-envision British Catholic identity in the twentieth-century long poem. Jones returned to the English record to seek out those moments where the histories of the Welsh had been elided or erased. At a time when the Middle Ages are increasingly weaponised in far-right and nationalist political discourse, the book offers a timely discussion of how\u003cbr\u003ethe early medieval past has been resourced to both shore-up and challenge English hegemonies across modern British culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancesca Brooks, \u003cem\u003eLeverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of York\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrancesca Brooks is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of York. She has previously published on sensory perceptions of the early medieval liturgy in England, the influence of liturgical innovation on vernacular Passion poetry (both medieval and modernist), and the crafting of sound in the riddles of the Old English Exeter Book. Dr Brooks teaches both medieval and modern literature and is interested in the intersections of critical and creative practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 8.03 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 23, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462092570802,"sku":"9780198860143","price":51.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/3306c1d37d8ab8f188628ef59386cfe0.webp?v=1778961797","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/poet-of-the-medieval-modern-reading-the-early-medieval-library-with-david-jones-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}