Alexander, Michael, 1941-, Medievalism , c2007
- Title(s):
- Medievalism : the Middle Ages in modern England / Michael Alexander.
- Published/Created:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 306 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryDA110 .A44 2007 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7731686
- Related Content:
- Table of contents only
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Civilization, Medieval, in art.Civilization, Medieval, in literature.Gothic revival (Architecture) -- Great Britain.Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain.Great Britain -- Intellectual life.Medievalism -- Great Britain -- History.
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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.