Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England
- ISBN-10
- 0300110618
- ISBN-13
- 9780300110616
- Series
- Medievalism
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 306
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Michael Alexander
Description
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Plates -- chapter 1 The Advent of the Goths the medieval in the 1760s -- chapter 2 Chivalry, Romances and Revival chaucer into scott: the lay of the last minstrel and ivanhoe -- chapter 3 Dim Religious Lights the lay, christabel and 'the eve of st agnes' -- chapter 4 'Residences for the Poor' the pugin of contrasts -- chapter 5 Back to the Future in the 1840s carlyle, ruskin, sybil, newman -- chapter 6 'The Death of Arthur was the Favourite Volume' malory into tennyson -- chapter 7 History, the Revival and the PRB westminster, ivanhoe, visions and revisions -- chapter 8 History and Legend the subjects of poetry and painting -- chapter 9 The Working Men and the Common Good madox brown, maurice, morris, hopkins -- chapter 10 Among the Lilies and the Weeds hopkins, whistler, burne-jones, beardsley -- chapter 11 'I Have Seen ... A White Horse' chesterton, yeats, ford, pound -- chapter 12 Modernist Medievalism eliot, pound, jones -- chapter 13 Twentieth-century Christendom waugh, auden, inklings, hill -- epilogue 'Riding through the glen' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Other editions
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- 1988
- 279 pages
- Paperback
- Garland Pub.
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