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Popular medievalism in romantic-era Britain /

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Main Author: Simmons, Clare A., 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Authors, English > 19th century > Political and social views.
Medievalism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Medievalism in literature.
Middle Ages in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: popular medievalism and the romantic ethos
  • Rites and rights: the topography of ancient British law
  • Taking medievalism home: the national melody
  • Medievalism onstage in the French Revolutionary era
  • The radical bestiary
  • Buried alive: gothic reading and medievalist subjectivity
  • Scottish lawyers, feudal law.