Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern EnglandYale University Press, 1 sty 2007 - 306 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 literature. The book focuses on the period 1760 to 1971, with an Epilogue on the reverberations of medievalism in the present day. The rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster, after its destruction by fire in 1834, re-established Gothic as the national style. But medieval imitation manifests itself wherever one cares to look: in literature, architecture, the applied arts, religion, politics, and even Hollywood. In this skilled dissection of the components of this pervasive cultural movement, Michael Alexander rejects the idea that medievalism was confined to the Victorian period, and overturns the suspicion that it is by its nature escapist. |
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chapter 1 The Advent of the Goths the medieval in the 1760s | 1 |
the lay of the last minstrel and ivanhoe | 23 |
chapter 3 Dim Religious Lights the lay christabel and the eve of st agnes | 47 |
chapter 4 Residences for the Poor the pugin of contrasts | 60 |
chapter 5 Back to the Future in the 1840s carlyle ruskin sybil newman | 76 |
chapter 6 The Death of Arthur was the Favourite Volume malory into tennyson | 98 |
chapter 7 History the Revival and the PRB westminster ivanhoe visions and revisions | 118 |
chapter 8 History and Legend the subjects of poetry and painting | 137 |
chapter 10 Among the Lilies and the Weeds hopkins whistler burnejones beardsley | 173 |
chapter 11 I Have Seen A White Horse chesterton yeats ford pound | 188 |
chapter 12 Modernist Medievalism eliot pound jones | 203 |
chapter 13 Twentiethcentury Christendom waugh auden inklings hill | 221 |
epilogue Riding through the glen | 239 |
Notes | 247 |
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