{"product_id":"poet-of-the-medieval-modern-francesca-brooks-9780198860136","title":"Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones","description":"The 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on unpublished archival material including manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and, most significantly, the marginalia from David Jones's Library, this volume reads with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 the early medieval past has been resourced to both shore-up and challenge English hegemonies across modern British culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francesca Brooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198860137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198860136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.73w x 0.98d","brand":"Francesca Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43945887695103,"sku":"9780198860136","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_75b73b85-d8e4-47d0-88cf-7e7a85e47313.jpg?v=1681510325","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poet-of-the-medieval-modern-francesca-brooks-9780198860136","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}