Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern EnglandNow reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England—from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin, and Tennyson to Pound, Tolkien, and Rowling. “Medievalism . . . takes a panoramic view of the ‘recovery’ of the Medieval in English literature, visual arts and culture. . . . Ambitious, sweeping, sometimes idiosyncratic, but always interesting.”—Rosemary Ashton, Times Literary Supplement “Deeply researched and stylishly written, Medievalism is an unalloyed delight that will instruct and amuse a wide readership.”—Edward Short, Books & Culture |
Contents
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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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