Subaltern Medievalisms - Medievalism 'from below' in Nineteenth-Century Britain

A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite.

List of contents

Introduction: Towards a Subaltern Medieval Unconscious - David Matthews and Michael Sanders
Catholicism and Constitutionalism in William Cobbett's English and Irish Medievalism - Matthew Roberts
Resisting Medievalism: The 'Mediaeval Mania' and the Working-Class Press - David Matthews
How Radical was Rienzi? The Nineteenth-Century Representation of the Roman Revolutionary Republican in the British Cultural Imagination - Rosemary A. Mitchell
Chartism and Medievalism: Retrospective Radicalism in the English Nineteenth Century - Stephen Knight
Making Sense of Chartism's Multiple Medievalisms - Michael Sanders
Rousing 'the Spirit of Wat Tyler': Chartist Newspaper Portrayals of the Rebel Leader - Stephen Basdeo
The Cause of Liberty: Ford Madox Brown, Augustus Welby Pugin and Victorian Medievalism - Colin Trodd
Serfs, Saints and Comrades: Working-Class Medievalism and the Narratives of Victorian Socialism - Ingrid Hanson
Morbid Solidarity: Remains, Afterlives, and the Commune of Saints - Stuart McWilliams
Finding the Present in the Past: Suffrage Medievalism in the Pages of Votes for Women - Carolyn P Collette

Summary

A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn P Collette, Ingrid Hanson, David Matthews, Michael Sanders, Colin Trodd
• Assisted by: David Matthews (Editor), Professor David Matthews (Editor), Professor David (Director Matthews (Editor), Michael Sanders (Editor), Michael (Author) Sanders (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781843845782
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-578-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 164 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Illustrations: 1 colour, 9 b/w illus.
• Series: Medievalism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918