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Author DiVanna, Isabel

Title Reconstructing the Middle Ages : Gaston Paris and the development of nineteenth-century Medievalism / Isabel DiVanna
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 193 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary Reconstructing the Middle Ages looks at nineteenth-century medievalism in France using as a case study Gaston Paris, philologist, literary critic and professor of medieval studies. Gaston Paris's method, traditionally seen as a combination of romanticism and positivism, exemplifies several elements of nineteenth-century medievalism in the Parisian academia in late nineteenth-century France. The text investigates Gaston Paris's theories about three medieval literary genres (epic, fabliaux, and ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Paris, Gaston Bruno Paulin, 1839-1903.
SUBJECT Paris, Gaston Bruno Paulin, 1839-1903 fast
Subject Medievalism -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. -- History -- 19th century
Criticism -- France -- History -- 19th century
Historiography.
History: theory & methods.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Criticism
Intellectual life
Literature, Medieval -- Theory, etc.
Medievalism
SUBJECT France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051441
Subject France
France -- Paris
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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