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In the nineteenth century, Alfred the Great was a figure who rivalled King Arthur in the popular imagination. This book asks why Alfred was so important in Victorian Britain, examines the ways in which he was rewritten by authors and artists of the time, and investigates how Alfred is no longer a national icon.

Table of Contents

1. The day of a thousand years: Alfred and the Victorian mania for commemoration
2. Medievalism, Anglo-Saxonism, and the nineteenth century
3. Turning a king into a hero: nine hundred years of pre-Victorian reinvention
4. The hero as king: Alfred and nineteenth-century politics
5. ‘The root and spring of everything we love in church and state’: Alfred and Victorian progress
6. ‘The most perfect character in history’: Alfred and Victorian morality
7. ‘Never to be confused with King Arthur’: Alfred after Victoria
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 5/31/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719073571, 978-0719073571
      ISBN10: 071907357X
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      European history: medieval period, middle ages Cognition and cognitive psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the nineteenth century, Alfred the Great was a figure who rivalled King Arthur in the popular imagination. This book asks why Alfred was so important in Victorian Britain, examines the ways in which he was rewritten by authors and artists of the time, and investigates how Alfred is no longer a national icon.

      Table of Contents

      1. The day of a thousand years: Alfred and the Victorian mania for commemoration
      2. Medievalism, Anglo-Saxonism, and the nineteenth century
      3. Turning a king into a hero: nine hundred years of pre-Victorian reinvention
      4. The hero as king: Alfred and nineteenth-century politics
      5. ‘The root and spring of everything we love in church and state’: Alfred and Victorian progress
      6. ‘The most perfect character in history’: Alfred and Victorian morality
      7. ‘Never to be confused with King Arthur’: Alfred after Victoria
      Index

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