Main entry:

Alexander, Michael, 1941-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2006.

Description:

306 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Contrast, medievalism, periodisation -- The advent of the Goths : the medieval in the 1760s -- Augustan to romantic revival, Percy -- Chivalry, romances and revival : Chaucer chez Scott : the lay of the last minstrel and Ivanhoe -- Romances and comparisons : dim religious lights -- The lay, 'Christabel' and 'The eve of St Agnes' -- The Pugin of contrasts -- Back to the future in the 1840s : Carlyle, Ruskin, Sybil, Newman -- The death of Arthur was the favourite volume : Malory, Digby, Tennyson, Rossettis, Morris -- History, the revival, and the PRB -- Westminster, Ivanhoe, medieval texts, the PRB -- History and legend : Tennyson, Ford Madox Brown -- 'Work,' the common weal, 'the windhover' -- 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 -- Modern Christendom : Waugh, Auden, Inklings, Hill.

Resources:
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780300110616 (hbk.)
0300110618 (hbk.)

Subject:

Medievalism England.
English literature Medieval influences.
Architecture, Modern.
Middle Ages in motion pictures.
Médiévisme Angleterre.
Moyen Âge au cinéma.
Medievalism.
England.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252009
Call No.: BIB 181224
Status: Available