03979nam 2200721Ia 450 991045106840332120200520144314.01-281-36477-097866113647791-4039-8116-710.1057/9781403981165(CKB)1000000000342799(EBL)307633(OCoLC)808627410(SSID)ssj0000110820(PQKBManifestationID)11139037(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110820(PQKBWorkID)10074171(PQKB)10533698(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8116-5(MiAaPQ)EBC307633(Au-PeEL)EBL307633(CaPaEBR)ebr10135514(CaONFJC)MIL136477(EXLCZ)99100000000034279920041028d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond Arthurian romances[electronic resource] the reach of Victorian medievalism /edited by Loretta M. Holloway and Jennifer A. Palmgren1st ed. 2005.New York Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (267 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53006-9 1-4039-6735-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-248) and index.Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; One: "Standing Proof of the Degeneracy of Modern Times": Architecture, Society, and the Medievalism of A.W.N. Pugin; Two: "Knight, Bard, Gallant": The Troubadour as a Critique of Romanticism in Browning's Sordello; Three: Charlotte Yonge's Victorian Normans in The Little Duke; Four: "And the golden halls were dumb": Norse Fatalism and Mourning in Matthew Arnold's Balder Dead; Five: Lessons from the Medieval Convent: Adelaide Procter's "A Legend of Provence"Six: "The Worship of Courage": William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung and Victorian MedievalismSeven: The Gallows Nightingale: Swinburne's Translations of Villon; Eight: Counter-Medievalism: Or, Protestants Rewrite the Middle Ages; Nine: Where Medieval Romance Meets Victorian Reality: The "Woman Question" in William Morris's The Wood Beyond the World; Ten: The Performance of Victorian Medievalism; Eleven: What is a Man?: The Refuting of the Chivalric Ideal at the Turn of the Century; Bibliography; IndexLeaving the traditional focus on Arthurian romance and Gothic tales, the essays in this collection address how the Victorians looked back to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority for their own ideas in areas such as art, religion, gender expectations, and social services. This book will interest specialists in the Victorian period from various fields and will also be a welcome addition to any library serving substantial humanities divisions. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the essays, this collection would be useful in a wide range of humanities classes beyond the traditional literature class.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismMiddle Ages in literatureMedievalismGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiterature, MedievalAppreciationGreat BritainMedievalism in literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Middle Ages in literature.MedievalismHistoryLiterature, MedievalAppreciationMedievalism in literature.820.9358Palmgren Jennifer A862046Holloway Lorretta M862047MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451068403321Beyond Arthurian romances1924299UNINA