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Medievalism : the Middle Ages in modern England

"The style of the medieval period, which inhabits the bloodstream of western culture, was vigorously re-established in post-Enlightenment England. This one-volume history of the Medieval Revival as a whole is the first coherent account of its social, political, religious, architectural and artistic aspects, especially as these are expressed and reflected in literature. Its focus is on the period 1760 to 1971, with an Epilogue on the reverberations of medievalism in the present day."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2007
Yale University Press, New Haven, ©2007
History
xxviii, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
9780300110616, 0300110618
1004797704
Introduction
The advent of the Goths : the medieval in the 1760s
Chivalry, romances and revival : Chaucer into Scott : The lay of the last minstrel and Ivanhoe
Dim religious lights
The lay, Christabel and 'The eve of St Agnes'
'Residences for the poor' : the Pugin of Contrasts
Back to the future in the 1840s : Carlyle, Ruskin, Sybil, Newman
'The death of Arthur was the favourite volume' : Malory into Tennyson
History, the revival and the PRB
Westminster, Ivanhoe, visions and revisions
History and legend : the subjects of poetry and painting
The working men and the common good : Madox Brown, Maurice, Morris, Hopkins
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
Twentieth-century Christendom : Waugh, Auden, Inklings, Hill
Epilogue : 'riding through the glen.'
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