The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature

by Kevin L. Morris

Overview

Originally published in 1984, The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature looks at the impact of medievalism in the 18^th and 19^th 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367190354
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2020
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table 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