Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 31068992
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.5871/bacad/9780197266502.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780197266502
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The volume (374pp.) stems from a conference held at the British Academy in 2016 and is published in OUP’s Proceedings of the British Academy. It assesses the extent of the Orlando Furioso’s impact on English culture from the sixteenth century to the present day. Jossa jointly commissioned and co-edited the volume, co-authored the substantial introduction, and contributed the concluding chapter (22pp.). The originality of the collection lies in the interdisciplinary nature of the scholarship, bringing together new research by international experts from several fields, including literature, music and the visual arts, and bridging between different traditions and languages, in particular Italian and English. Jossa’s contribution spans from sixteenth-century Italian literature to contemporary American cinema and British pop fiction, casting new light on Ariosto’s presence in English culture. The volume, which benefitted from funding from the BA, the MHRA, and the Society for Renaissance Studies, includes contributions from major experts from the UK, Italy, and the U.S., reflects on the doubleness of adaptation – appropriation combined with salvaging. Reviews have highlighted ‘outstanding essays, well argued, precisely focused, and fully in control of their materials’ (Warren Chernaik, University of London, Modern Language Review) and ‘a highly readable and very valuable contribution to the field’ (Selene Scarsi, Kingston University London, Spenser Review).
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