1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456783903321

Autore

DiVanna Isabel

Titolo

Reconstructing the Middle Ages [[electronic resource] ] : Gaston Paris and the development of nineteenth-century medievalism / / by Isabel DiVanna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2008

ISBN

1-282-33427-1

9786612334276

1-4438-1169-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

809.02

Soggetti

Medievalism - France - Paris - History - 19th century

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism - Theory, etc - History - 19th century

Criticism - France - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

France Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-193).

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

Reconstructing the Middle Ages looks at nineteenth-century medievalism in France using as a case study Gaston Paris, philologist, literary critic and professor of medieval studies. Gaston Paris's method, traditionally seen as a combination of romanticism and positivism, exemplifies several elements of nineteenth-century medievalism in the Parisian academia in late nineteenth-century France. The text investigates Gaston Paris's theories about three medieval literary genres (epic, fabliaux, and...