Drawing on the expertise of more than 40 international contributors and covering literature, fine art, architecture, religion, politics, and social change, this Handbook examines the pervasive Victorian obsession with the culture of the Middle Ages.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Part One: Medievalism before 1750
- 1: Philip Schwyzer: King Arthur and the Tudor Dynasty
- 2: Timothy Graham: Old English and Old Norse Studies to the Eighteenth Century
- 3: Graham Parry: Validating the English Church
- 4: Clare Simmons: The Diggers and the Norman Yoke
- Part Two: Romantic Period Medievalism
- 5: David Matthews: The Ballad Revival and the Rise of Literary History
- 6: Jack Lynch: Medieval Forgery
- 7: Kirsten Wolf: Grimur Thorkelin, Rasmus Rask, and the Origins of Philology
- 8: Joseph Crawford: The Romantic Gothic Imagination
- 9: Tom Duggett: Gothic Ruins and Revivals: The Lake Poet's Architecture of the Past
- 10: Jim Watt: Sir Walter Scott and the Medievalist Novel
- Part Three: Sources
- 11: Jane Toswell: The Study of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in the Victorian Period
- 12: Richard Utz: Chaucer Among the Victorians
- 13: Jane Hawkes: The Later Victorian Recovery of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture: George Forrest Brown (1833-1930), Proctor, Professor, Bishop and Anglo-Saxonist
- 14: Huw Pryce: The Irish and Welsh Middle Ages in the Victorian Period
- 15: Sarah Dunnigan and Gerard Carruthers: Scottish Neomedievalism
- 16: Eleonora Sasso: The Lure of Boccaccio's Medievalism
- 17: Carl Phelpstead: Eddas, Sagas, and Victorians
- 18: Francis Gentry: Medievalism as an Instrument of Political Renewal in 19th-Century Germany
- 19: Elizabeth Emery and Janet T. Marquardt: The Influences of French Medievalism on Victorian Britain
- Part Four: Social, Political, and Religious Praxis
- 20: Will Abberley: Philology, Anglo-Saxonism, and National Identity
- 21: Richard Gaunt: Toryism and the Young England Movement
- 22: Dominic Janes: The Oxford Movement, Asceticism and Sexual Desire
- 23: Ian Haywood: Illuminating Propaganda: Radical Medievalism and Utopia in the Chartist Era
- 24: Corinna Wagner: Bodies and Buildings: Materialist Medievalism
- 25: Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschul: Medievalism and Colonialism: Orientalizing Chile and India in the Age of British Militarized Mercantilism
- Part Five: Arts and Architecture
- 26: William Whyte: Ecclesiastical Gothic Revivalism
- 27: Jim Cheshire: Victorian Medievalism and Secular Design
- 28: Alex Bremner: The Gothic Revival Beyond Europe
- 29: Ayla Lepine: The Pre-Raphaelites: Medievalism and Victorian Visual Culture
- 30: Jan Marsh: William Morris and Medievalism
- 31: Rosie Ibbotson: Revisiting the medievalism of the British Arts and Crafts Movement
- 32: John Haines: Medievalist Music and Dance
- Part Six: Literature
- 33: Elizabeth Helsinger: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: Medieval Modernism
- 34: Clare Broome Saunders: Women Writers and the Medieval
- 35: Marcus Waithe: Building Utopia: The Structural Medievalism of William Morris's News from Nowhere
- 36: Antony H. Harrison: Mid-to-Late Victorian Medievalist Poetry
- 37: Heather O'Donoghue: Re-presenting Icelandic Saga Narrative for Victorian Readers
- 38: Joanne Parker: Anglo-Saxonism and the Victorian Novel
- 39: Inga Bryden: Tennyson and the Return of King Arthur
