
Romantic Medievalism
History and the Romantic Literary Ideal
E. Fay(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 17. December 2001
Book
Hardback
V, 233 pages
978-0-333-97007-2 (ISBN)
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.
More details
Edition
2002
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
V, 233 p.
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-97007-2 (9780333970072)
DOI
10.1057/9781403913616
Schweitzer Classification
Person
ELIZABETH FAY teaches Romantic Period Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her publications include
Becoming Wordsworthian: A Performative Aesthetics
and
Feminist Introduction to Romanticism
.
Content
Romantic Medievalism: The Ideal of History Cultivating Medievalism: Feeling History The Legacy of Arthur: Scott, Wordsworth and Byron Keats and the Time of Romance The Shelleys on Love Index