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Cover 1 World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture 4 Copyright 5 Series Editor's Preface 6 Dedication 8 Preface and Acknowledgements 10 Contents 14 List of Figures 16 Introduction: Medievalism and the Missing Globe 18 The global Middle Ages 21 Globalism and medievalism 29 Globe and world 33 World Medievalism: the arrangementof this book 40 1: Medievalism Disoriented: The French Novel and Neo-reactionary Politics 52 Nation and ‘globophobia’ 52 Populism and the loss of ‘deep France’ 55 Jérôme Ferrari’s Sermon on the Fall of Rome:colonial trauma 63 Michel Houellebecq’s Submission: melancholic medievalism 69 Mathias Enard’s Compass: medievalism and dis-orientalism 77 2: Medievalism Re-oriented: Tariq Ali’s Islam Quintet and the ‘Arab’ Historical Novel 89 The Islam Quintet as diasporic fiction 89 Predecessors: pan-Arabism and the historical novel 96 Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree 98 The Book of Saladin 108 A Sultan in Palermo 116 3: The Name of the Hobbit: Halflings, Hominins, and Deep Time 126 The Flores Hobbit and the story of world humanity 134 Medievalizing the prehistoric 139 Medievalism and containment of the deep global past 150 4: Ten Canoes and 1066: Aborigin

Author

Louise D'Arcens

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EN