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Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to medievalism in England, including: The Antiquarian Impulse in England, 1500-1730, The Two Noble Kinsmen and the Problem of Chivalry, From Medievalism to Historicism, Catholic History and the MiddleAges, Rossetti's Quest for God's Graal.Medievalism - the whole spectrum of post-medieval response to the middle ages - is now accepted as a vital key to the understanding of Western culture and society from 1500 to the present, pervading every aspect of our time, fromthe popularto the scholarly and artistic.
Studies in Medievalism, published annually, is the one series to provide a regular forum for discussion of issues related to medievalism. This volume is devoted to medievalism in England, appropriately, since England has always played a central part in the development of medievalism. Contributors from England, Germany, Japan, Canada and the United States deal with topics ranging from 16th-century antiquarianism to 20th-century detective fiction. Contributors: D.R. WOOLF, DENNIS O'BRIEN, PETER HADORN, A. CAMERON AIRHEART, MARTIN WALSH, R.J.SMITH, ROGER SIMPSON, RAYMOND CHAPMAN, CLARE SIMMONS, THOMAS COOKSEY, RENATE HAAS, YURIFUWA, ANTHONY HARRISON, ROBERT BURTON, EDWIN CHRISTIAN, BLAKE LINDSY, MARC BAER.
Table of ContentsThe dawn of the artifact - the antiquarian impulse in England, 1500-1730, D.R.Woolf; Lord Berners "Huon of Burdeux" - the survival of medieval ideals in the reign of Henry VIII, Dennis J.O'Brien; "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and the problem of chivalry, Peter T. Hadorn; medieval heretics and Cromwell's protectorate, A.Cameron Airhart; St. Martin in the City - The Lord Mayor's Show of 1702, Martin W.Walsh; from medievalism to historicism - representations of history in the gothic novel and historical romance, David H.Richter; antiquarian or bibliographer? the dilemma of Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Laurel Braswell-Means; Cobbett, Catholic history, and the Middle Ages, R.J.Smith; "Revisiting Cramalot" - an Arthurian theme in the correspondence of William Taylor and Robert Southey, Roger Simpson; Malory's "Morte D'Arthur" in Tennyson's library, Yuri Fuwa; last enchantments - medievalism and the early Anglo-Catholic movement, Raymond Chapman; the central man of the world - the Victorian myth of Dante, Thomas L.Cooksey; "Iron-worded proof" - Victorian identity and the Old English language, Clare A.Simmons; V.A.Huber's memoir of F.J.Furnivall, Renate Haas; medievalism and the ideologies of Vitorian poetry, Antony H.Harrison; the "defence of Lancelot" - Rossetti's quest for "God's Graal", Eriko Yamaguchi; medieval Arthurian motifs in the modernist art and poetry of David Jones, Xavier Baron; revitalizing an old tradition - the "organic" writings of Raymond Williams and John Fowles, Robert S.Burton; the habit of detection - the medieval monk as detective in the novels of Ellis Peters, Edwin Ernest Christian and Blake Lindsay; the memory of the Middle Ages - from history of culture to cultural history, Marc Baer.
