Leaving the traditional focus on Arthurian romance and Gothic tales, the essays in this collection address how the Victorians looked back to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority for their own ideas in areas such as art, religion, gender expectations, and social services. This book will interest specialists in the Victorian period from various fields and will also be a welcome addition to any library serving substantial humanities divisions. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the essays, this collection would be useful in a wide range of humanities classes beyond the traditional literature class.

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Yes, you can access Beyond Arthurian Romances by J. Palmgren, L. Holloway, J. Palmgren,L. Holloway in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2005

Print ISBN

9781349530069, 9781403967350

eBook ISBN

9781403981165

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
One: “Standing Proof of the Degeneracy of Modern Times”: Architecture, Society, and the Medievalism of A.W.N. Pugin
Two: “Knight, Bard, Gallant”: The Troubadour as a Critique of Romanticism in Browning’s Sordello
Three: Charlotte Yonge’s Victorian Normans in The Little Duke
Four: “And the golden halls were dumb”: Norse Fatalism and Mourning in Matthew Arnold’s Balder Dead
Five: Lessons from the Medieval Convent: Adelaide Procter’s “A Legend of Provence”
Six: “The Worship of Courage”: William Morris’s Sigurd the Volsung and Victorian Medievalism
Seven: The Gallows Nightingale: Swinburne’s Translations of Villon
Eight: Counter-Medievalism: Or, Protestants Rewrite the Middle Ages
Nine: Where Medieval Romance Meets Victorian Reality: The “Woman Question” in William Morris’s The Wood Beyond the World
Ten: The Performance of Victorian Medievalism
Eleven: What is a Man?: The Refuting of the Chivalric Ideal at the Turn of the Century
Bibliography
Index

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