Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Revivalist Fantasy: Alliterative Nationalism, from Modern to Medieval
1. Beyond the Back water: Alliterative Revivalism and Nationalist Fantasy
2. Cross-Channel Becomings-Animal: Primal Courtliness in Guillaume de Palerne and William of Palerne
3. Destabilizing Arthurian Empire: Gender and Anxiety in Alliterative Texts of the Militarized Midlands
4. Borderland Subversions: Anti-Imperial Energies in the Awntyrs off Arthure and Golagros and Gawane
5. Bags of Books and Books as Bags: Political Protest, Communications Technologies, and the Piers Plowman Tradition
Epilogue: Epochal Historiography and Re-Engagement with Alliterative Poems
Notes
Bibliography
Index