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GOSSEDGE, ROB
Rob Gossedge is a Lecturer in the School of English Literature at Cardiff University. His research Interests include Arthurian legend, Robin Hood, formations of British and American medievalism from the eighteenth century to the present, myth and modernism (especially the use of medieval culture in modernist writing), Celticism and Britishness, Welsh writing in English and Evelyn Waugh and his contemporaries. Rob has published articles in the Welsh Writing in English Yearbook, Arthurian Literature and the British Journal of Canadian Studies.Rob is currently revising his PhD thesis on nineteenth- and twentieth-century retellings of the Arthurian story for book publication. It is the first sustained account of modern Arthuriana to concentrate wholly on English, Welsh, Cornish and Scottish rewritings of the legend, and it pays particular attention to the role scholarship plays in determining the meaning of the medieval in the modern world. His next research project will be a study of American medievalism: a monograph on the relationship between American culture and the literature of the Middle Ages.
Contributed to:
The Cambridge Companion to Arthurian Literature (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing, 1900-1950 (contributor) (Macmillan, 2006)