Beyond Arthurian romances : the reach of Victorian medievalism / / edited by Loretta M. Holloway and Jennifer A. Palmgren

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2005.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9358
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Middle Ages in literature; Medievalism - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Literature, Medieval - Appreciation - Great Britain; Medievalism in literature
• Altri autori: PalmgrenJennifer A HollowayLorretta M
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-248) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Leaving 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond Arthurian romances
• ISBN: 1-281-36477-0; 9786611364779; 1-4039-8116-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816936603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II