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Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Craft, Intertext, Dispence (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, M. R. (2024). Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Craft, Intertext, Dispence. Parergon, 41(1), 191-212. https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a935340

Ekphrasis has long been a topic of interest to literary scholars, but until quite recently medieval ekphrasis has existed on the periphery of most accounts of it. This article explores the distinctive nature of medieval ekphrasis in passages of descr... Read More about Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Craft, Intertext, Dispence.

The Uses of Medievalism in Early Modern England: Recovery, Temporality, and the “Passionating” of the Past (2018)
Journal Article
Jones, M. R. (2018). The Uses of Medievalism in Early Modern England: Recovery, Temporality, and the “Passionating” of the Past. Exemplaria, 30(3), 191-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/10412573.2018.1464811

The premodern past was desired and deployed in a myriad of different ways in sixteenth-century England. The period of the English Reformations produced a generative, complex, and paradoxical range of feelings for the premodern. Many sixteenth-century... Read More about The Uses of Medievalism in Early Modern England: Recovery, Temporality, and the “Passionating” of the Past.

'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, M. R. (2017). 'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city. Review of English Studies, 68(287), 883-901. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgx018

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press 2017; all rights reserved. This article explores the ways in which mid-Tudor writing addressed and imagined the city of London. Scholarly reactions to mid-Tudor writing have been mixed: where ni... Read More about 'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city.