Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England

by Michael Alexander (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2017

  $6.46

  Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England-from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin, and Tennyson to Pound, Tolkien, and Rowling. Medievalism ...takes a panoramic view of the 'recovery' of the Medieval in English literature, visual arts and culture...Ambitious, sweeping, sometimes idiosyncratic, but always interesting. -Rosemary Ashton, Times Literary Supplement Deeply researched and stylishly written, Medievalism is an unalloyed delight that will instruct and amuse a wide readership. -Edward Short, Books & Culture

• New

  Paperback
  2017

  $18.88

  Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England-from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin, and Tennyson to Pound, Tolkien, and Rowling. Medievalism ...takes a panoramic view of the 'recovery' of the Medieval in English literature, visual arts and culture...Ambitious, sweeping, sometimes idiosyncratic, but always interesting. -Rosemary Ashton, Times Literary Supplement Deeply researched and stylishly written, Medievalism is an unalloyed delight that will instruct and amuse a wide readership. -Edward Short, Books & Culture