The Good Corporation? Google’s Medievalism and Why It Matters

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Editorial Note xiii
5. I: Corporate Medievalism II: Some Perspective(s)
6. The Corporate Gothic of New York’s Woolworth Building: Medieval Branding in the Original “Cathedral of Commerce” 1
7. Our Future is Our Past: Corporate Medievalism in Dystopian Fiction 11
8. The Good Corporation? Google’s Medievalism and Why It Matters 21
9. II: Interpretations
10. “Longest, oldest and most popular”: Medievalism in the Lord Mayor’s Show 29
11. Gendering Percy’s Reliques: Ancient Ballads and the Making of Women’s Arthurian Writing 45
12. Romancing the Pre-Reformation: Charles Reade’s The Cloister and the Hearth 69
13. Renovation and Resurrection in M. R. James’s “An Episode of Cathedral History” 85
14. Rodin’s Gates of Hell and Dante’s Inferno 7: Fortune, the Avaricious and Prodigal, and the Question of Salvation 115
15. Film Theory, the Sister Arts Tradition, and the Cinematic Beowulf 153
16. Red Days, Black Knights: Medieval-themed Comic Books in American Containment Culture 181
17. Notes on Contributors 201