| Romantic Medievalism: History and the Romantic Literary Ideal 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Fay, E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333970071 ISBN-13: 9780333970072 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2001 Annotation: The Romantic period was characterized by a new historical self-consciousness in which history, and in particular the medieval, became an important screen for comprehending the present. Recent Scholarship has proposed contending theories for understanding how the historical is used to symbolize the political in the period. "Romantic Medievalism" takes an original position in proposing a critical difference in how the medieval was used to interpret the present, arguing that, where as the conservative writers identified with the knight of romance, radical writers identified with the troubadour of the courtly love lyric. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 820.932 |
| LCCN: 2001036989 |
| Lexile Measure: 1560 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.8" W x 8.76" (1.03 lbs) 233 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nineteenth century medievalism is usually associated with Scott's world of Ivanhoe, but Romantic Medievalism argues that Scott's is a conservative use of the past and that radical poets such as the young Coleridge, Keats and Shelley used the medieval to critique and change, rather than validate, the present. These poets identified with the troubadour of courtly love, a disempowered figure often politically at odds with the establishment figure of the knight. |