Revivalist Fantasy: Alliterative Verse and Nationalist Literary History

Abstract

Beyond the backwater : alliterative revivalism and nationalist fantasy -- Cross-channel becomings-animal : primal courtliness in Guillaume de Palerne and William of Palerne -- Destabilizing Arthurian empire : gender and anxiety in alliterative texts of the militarized midlands -- Borderland subversions : anti-imperial energies in the Awntyrs off Arthure and Golagros and Gawane -- Bags of books and books as bags : political protest, communications technologies, and the Piers Plowman tradition.