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Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood : Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition

Title

Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood : Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition / edited by Stephen Knight.

Publication

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2011]
©2011

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Additional Authors

Knight, Stephen, 1940-

Description

xviii, 232 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Robin Hood tradition is a rich assembly of exciting stories, more than five hundred years old and still thriving. From medieval ballads of yeoman resistance and gentrified Renaissance stories of Lord Robin versus bad King John, the tradition survived lustily into modern film, through which Robin Hood, played by major stars like Fairbanks, Flynn, and Costner, has become a truly international hero of natural law. This richly varied tradition enables scholars to study how different periods have understood the concept of Robin's noble resistance to wrongful authority. These new essays uncover innovative topics like Robin's relation with the cult of archery in the late Middle Ages, the purpose of the recently discovered 1670s' Forresters manuscript of outlaw ballads, and what Thomas Love Peacock thought when in 1815 he met in Windsor Forest a man called Little John"--Back cover.

Series Statement

Medieval identities: socio-cultural spaces ; vol. 1

Uniform Title

Medieval identities, socio-cultural spaces ; v.1.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Alterity, Parody, Habitus: The Formation Of The Early Literary Tradition Of Robin Hood / Stephen Knight -- Nietzsche's Herd and the Individual: The Construction of Alterity in A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode / Alexander L. Kaufman -- Journeys To The Edge: Self-Identity, Salvation, And Outlaw(ed) Space / Lesley Coote -- Robin Hood and the Social Context of Late Medieval Archery / John Block Friedman -- Reformist Polemics, Reading Publics, and Unpopular Robin Hood / Helen Phillips -- The Forresters Manuscript: A Book On The Margins? / Carrie Griffin -- Thomas Love Peacock, Robin Hood, and the Enclosure of Windsor Forest / Rob Gossedge -- Mouvance, Greenwood, and Gender in The Adventures of Robin Hood and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves / Lesley Coote -- Batman and Robin Hood: Hobsbawm's Outlaw Heroes Past and Present / John Chandler -- Agamben's homo sacer, the `State of Exception', and the Modern Robin Hood / Valerie B. Johnson.

ISBN

9782503540542
2503540546
9782503541273
2503541275

OCLC

ocn797971087
797971087
SCSB-1665298

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library