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

Author/creator Alexander, Michael
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxxviii, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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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.'
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [284]-289) and index.
LCCN 2006017765
ISBN0300110618 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780300110616 (alk. paper)