Medievalism the Middle Ages in modern England

The style of the medieval period, which flows through the bloodstream of western culture, was vigorously re-established in post-Enlightenment England. This one-volume history of the Medieval Revival is the first coherent account of it, especially those aspects that are expressed and reflected in lit...

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Autor principal: Alexander, Michael, 1941- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press 2006
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  • Introduction : Contrast, medievalism, periodisation
  • The advent of the Goths : the medieval in the 1760s
  • Augustan to romantic revival, Percy
  • Chivalry, romances and revival : Chaucer chez Scott : the lay of the last minstrel and Ivanhoe
  • Romances and comparisons : dim religious lights
  • The lay, 'Christabel' and 'The eve of St Agnes'
  • The Pugin of contrasts
  • Back to the future in the 1840s : Carlyle, Ruskin, Sybil, Newman
  • The death of Arthur was the favourite volume : Malory, Digby, Tennyson, Rossettis, Morris
  • History, the revival, and the PRB
  • Westminster, Ivanhoe, medieval texts, the PRB
  • History and legend : Tennyson, Ford Madox Brown
  • 'Work,' the common weal, 'the windhover'
  • Among the lilies and the weeds : Hopkins, Whistler, Burne-Jones, Beardsley
  • I have seen a white horse : Chesterton, Yeats, Ford, Pound
  • Modernist medievalism : Eliot, Pound, Jones
  • Modern Christendom : Waugh, Auden, Inklings, Hill.