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Medievalism and Memory Work: Archer's Folly and the Gothic Revival Pile
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Mead, J 2005
, 'Medievalism and Memory Work: Archer's Folly and the Gothic Revival Pile', in Stephanie Trigg (ed.), Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture
, Making the Middle Ages (8)
, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, Belgium, pp. 99-118.
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Abstract
This chapter argues that medievalism in Australian culture needs to be understood through a postcolonial theory alert to a new historicist reading of cultural artefacts while nuanced by psychoanalysis. The focus of such a reading is the work of memory. 'Medievalism' is taken to mean the re-use of the medieval past and thus includes cultural, economic and academic practices. The artefacts read are dispersed across nineteenth-century records of property sale, a stone tower and a Gothic building, documents of twenthieth-century debate around the value of education and a range of memoirs.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Authors/Creators: | Mead, J |
Keywords: | medievalism, memory, culture, Australia, national identity |
Publisher: | Brepols Publishers |
Additional Information: | This chapter was republished in the same volume by Melbourne University Publishing in 2006. |
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