Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature

Originally published in 1984, The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature looks at the impact of medievalism in the 18th and 19th 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 connected, was intimately associated with the metaphysical. The book suggests that this belief gave birth to the metaphysical yearning and cultural expression of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The book seeks to clarify the post-Enlightenment relationship between aesthetic culture and 'aesthetic' religion, romanticism, medievalism and religious trends.

List of contents

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

About the author

Kevin L. Morris

Summary

Originally published in 1984, The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature looks at the impact of medievalism in the 18th and 19th centuries and the importance of post-Enlightenment literary religious medievalism.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin L Morris, Kevin L. Morris, Morris Kevin L.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367190354
• ISBN: 978-0-367-19035-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, 1837–1901 (Victorian period)