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Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England

By Michael Alexander

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
0300227302, 9780300227307
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30809585 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
312\327
Time added
2018-06-21 02:19:58
England;Great Britain;Europe;History

Description

Now 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

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