Browsing by Author "Tharp, Sarah Anne, 1991-"

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Editing and translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the nineteenth century : the work of Sir Frederic Madden, Richard Morris, and Jessie L. Weston.
(2017-05-26) Tharp, Sarah Anne, 1991-; Pond, Kristen A.
Editorial decisions and translation choices reveal the rhetorical aims of editors and translators. No edition or translation is entirely neutral, as editors and translators emphasize some information and ideas as they mediate the text for their audiences. This thesis will analyze the rhetorical effects of Victorian editing and translating practices on medieval texts by examining the work of Sir Frederic Madden, Richard Morris, and Jessie L. Weston related to the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Each body chapter will focus on one editor or translator and discuss how the perception of audience needs and the privileging of aspects of the text influence their choices. By using these nineteenth-century editions of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a case study, the significance of editorial and translation choices will be considered.
Laws of the land : ecomedieavlism and the politics of property in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature.
(2023-08) Tharp, Sarah Anne, 1991-; Pond, Kristen A.
American medievalism has long been explained as a phenomenon responding to the influence of British medievalism. While other scholars have demonstrated the complexities of the relationship between the two nations’ approaches to medievalism before, I argue that instead of simply borrowing medievalism or adapting medievalism, both British and American writers use medievalism to have a shared conversation. My dissertation demonstrates that medievalism was a popular discourse because it allowed the two nations, with shared histories, to have a mutually intelligible conversation about property law. Specifically, by returning to the perceived origins of property law, such as medieval hunting law and the implementation of feudalism, both British and American writers could develop their ideas about the relationship between property law and national identity. To demonstrate the flexibility of medievalism and the continuity of these ideas, I examine three pairs of authors across three genres: the Gothic novels of William Godwin and Charles Brockden Brown; the historical romances of Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper; and the time travel novels of William Morris and Mark Twain. Furthermore, I connect all three pairings through an analysis of one of the oddest features of American medievalism, the medievalizing of Indigenous characters, to demonstrate that the historiographical discourse about the Middle Ages and about land policy (hunting and agriculture) plays a major role in providing continuity across a highly flexible discourse.