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Medievalism : the Middle Ages in modern England / Michael Alexander.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 306 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300229554
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DA110 .M435 2017
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.'
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.'

"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.

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