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Author:

Alexander, Michael, 1941-

Title:

Medievalism : the Middle Ages in modern England / Michael Alexander.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxviii, 306 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Medievalism--Great Britain--History.
Great Britain--Intellectual life.
Gothic revival (Architecture)--Great Britain.
Civilization, Medieval, in art.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-289) and index.

Contents:

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.'

ISBN:

9780300110616 (alk. paper)
0300110618 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006017765

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)