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Ivanhoe and the Modern Middle Ages
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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Oct 16, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
(Lucy) How did Ivanhoe become a wildly popular school text? And what happened to the interpretation of the text when it did? Across the Anglophone world, Scott’s medieval England became reified as a time and place of chivalric adventure, despite the novel’s often ironic tone and often pointed social criticisms. This episode examines how Sir Walter Scott’s imagined past became something very different as it was reinterpreted in popular culture, in sometimes sinister ways.
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Released:
Oct 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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