Download or read book Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism written by Clare Broome Saunders and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saunders uniquely explores how women poets, biographers, historians, and visual artists used medieval motifs, forms, and settings to enable them to comment more freely on controversial contemporary issues, such as war and gender roles.