The Oxford handbook of Victorian medievalism / edited by Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, Joanne, 1974- editor.

Wagner, Corinna, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medievalism.

History.

Great Britain--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Medievalism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Medievalism--Europe, Southern--History--19th century.

Southern Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (720 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Handbook of Victorian medievalism

Victorian medievalism

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Victorian medievalism physically transformed the streets of Britain. It lay at the root of new laws and social policies. It changed religious practices. It deeply coloured national identities. And it inspired art, literature, and music that remains influential to this day. Sometimes driven by nostalgia, but also often progressive and future-facing, this wide-reaching movement, which reached its peak during the reign of Queen Victoria, looked back to a range of different peoples and historical periods spanning a thousand years, in order to inspire and vindicate cultural, political and social change. This landmark study is an attempt to draw together for the first time every major aspect of Victorian medievalism, and to examine the phenomenon from the perspective of the many disciplines to which it is relevant.

Contents:

King Arthur and the Tudor Dynasty / Philip Schwyzer

Sir Walter Scott and the Medievalist Novel / James Watt

The Study of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in the Victorian Period / M. J. Toswell

Chaucer Among the Victorians / Richard Utz

The Later Victorian Recovery of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture: George Forrest Brown (1833-1930), Proctor, Professor, Bishop and Anglo-Saxonist / Jane Hawkes

The Irish and Welsh Middle Ages in the Victorian Period / Huw Pryce

Scottish Neomedievalism / Sarah Dunnigan, Gerard Carruthers

The Lure of Boccaccio's Medievalism / Eleonora Sasso

Eddas, Sagas, and Victorians / Carl Phelpstead

Medievalism as an Instrument of Political Renewal in 19th-Century Germany / Francis G. Gentry

The Influences of French Medievalism on Victorian Britain / Elizabeth Emery, Janet T. Marquardt

Old English and Old Norse Studies to the Eighteenth Century / Timothy Graham

Philology, Anglo-Saxonism, and National Identity / Will Abberley

Toryism and the Young England Movement / Richard A. Gaunt

The Oxford Movement, Asceticism and Sexual Desire / Dominic Janes

Illuminating Propaganda: Radical Medievalism and Utopia in the Chartist Era / Ian Haywood

Bodies and Buildings: Materialist Medievalism / Corinna Wagner

Medievalism and Colonialism: Orientalizing Chile and India in the Age of British Militarized Mercantilism / Kathleen Davis, Nadia R. Altschul

Ecclesiastical Gothic Revivalism / William Whyte

Victorian Medievalism and Secular Design / Jim Cheshire

The Gothic Revival Beyond Europe / G. A. Bremner

The Pre-Raphaelites: Medievalism and Victorian Visual Culture / Ayla Lepine

Validating the English Church / Graham Parry

William Morris and Medievalism / Jan Marsh

Revisiting the medievalism of the British Arts and Crafts Movement / Rosie Ibbotson

Medievalist Music and Dance / John Haines

Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: Medieval Modernism / Elizabeth Helsinger

Women Writers and the Medieval / Clare Broome Saunders

Building Utopia: The Structural Medievalism of William Morris's News from Nowhere / Marcus Waithe

Mid-to-Late Victorian Medievalist Poetry / Antony H. Harrison

Re-presenting Icelandic Saga Narrative for Victorian Readers / Heather O'Donoghue

Anglo-Saxonism and the Victorian Novel / Joanne Parker

Tennyson and the Return of King Arthur / Inga Bryden

The Diggers and the Norman Yoke / Clare A. Simmons

Introduction / Joanne Parker, Corinna Wagner

The Ballad Revival and the Rise of Literary History / David Matthews

Medieval Forgery / Jack Lynch

Grimur Thorkelin, Rasmus Rask, and the Origins of Philology / Kirsten Wolf

The Romantic Gothic Imagination / Joseph Crawford

Gothic Ruins and Revivals: The Lake Poet's Architecture of the Past / Tom Duggett.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 2, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191822551

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