1st Edition
The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature
By Kevin L. Morris
Copyright 1984
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1984, The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature looks at the impact of medievalism in the 18 th and 19 th centuries and the importance of post-Enlightenment literary religious medievalism. The book suggests that religious medievalism was not a superficial cultural phenomenon and that the romantic spirit with which it was chronologically... Read more
Preface
Abbreviations
1.The Cuckoo’s Egg: Romanticism and Religious Medievalism
2. Religious Medievalism? 1750-1825
3. Anti-Medievalism: 1750-1900
4. Kenelm Henry Digby and Young England
5. Catholics and Anglo-Catholics
6. Attitudes to Medieval Ecclesiastical Architecture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
7. John Ruskin and Medieval Art in the Nineteenth Century
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kevin L. Morris
