| Description |
xxviii, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medievalism -- Great Britain -- History.
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Gothic revival (Architecture) -- Great Britain.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Civilization, Medieval, in art.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056850
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| LC no. |
2006017765 |
| ISBN |
9780300110616 alkaline paper |
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