Medievalist Enlightenment - From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The influence on Enlightenment thought of medievalism has been underestimated; it is here reappraised and its significance brought out.

Table des matières

Introduction
A Sense of the Past: Ancients, Moderns, and the Medieval
The Medievalist Rhetorics of Enlightenment
Survivals: Reading the Medieval Roman at the Dawn of the Enlightenment
Continuities: The Medieval as Performance
Reconfigurations: Medievalism and Desire, Between Eros and Agape
The Invention of Medieval Studies
Conclusion: Medievalism as an Alternative Modernity

A propos de l'auteur

Alicia C. Montoya

Résumé

The influence on Enlightenment thought of medievalism has been underestimated; it is here reappraised and its significance brought out.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alicia C Montoya, Alicia C. Montoya
• Edition: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 21.03.2013
• EAN: 9781843843429
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-342-9
• Pages: 256
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 240 mm x 24 mm
• Poids: 560 g
• Thème: Medievalism
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée