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Medievalism : the Middle Ages in modern England /

"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 arti...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alexander, Michael, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.'