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Oxford handbook of Victorian medievalism
In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages.' The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance) was both pervasive and multifaceted. This 'medievalism' led, for instance, to the rituals and ornament of the medieval Catholic church being reintroduced to Anglicanism. It ledto the Saxon Witan being celebrated as a prototypical representative parliament. It resulted in Viking raiders being acclaimed as the forefathers of the British navy. And it encouraged innumerable nineteenth-century men to cultivate the superlative beards we now think of as typically 'Victorian' in an attempt to emulate their Anglo-Saxon forefathers. Different facets of medieval life, and different periods before the Renaissance, were utilized in nineteenth-century Britain for divergent political and cultural agendas. Medievalism also became a dominant mode in Victorian art and architecture, with 75 per cent of churches in England built on a Gothic rather than a classical model. And it was pervasive in a wide variety of literary forms, from translated sagas to pseudo-medieval devotional verse to triple-decker novels. Medievalism even transformed nineteenth-century domesticity, while only a minority added moats and portcullises to their homes, the medieval-style textiles produced by Morris and Co. decorated many affluent drawing rooms. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism is the first work to examine in full the fascinating phenomenon of 'medievalism' in Victorian Britain. Covering art, architecture, religion, literature, politics, music and social reform, the Handbook also surveys earlier forms of antiquarianism that established the groundwork for Victorian movements.
King Arthur and the Tudor Dynasty / Philip Schwyzer -- Sir Walter Scott and the Medievalist Novel / James Watt -- The Study of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in the Victorian Period / M. J. Toswell -- Chaucer Among the Victorians / Richard Utz -- The Later Victorian Recovery of Anglo-Saxon Sculpture: George Forrest Brown (1833-1930), Proctor, Professor, Bishop and Anglo-Saxonist / Jane Hawkes -- The Irish and Welsh Middle Ages in the Victorian Period / Huw Pryce -- Scottish Neomedievalism / Sarah Dunnigan, Gerard Carruthers -- The Lure of Boccaccio's Medievalism / Eleonora Sasso -- Eddas, Sagas, and Victorians / Carl Phelpstead -- Medievalism as an Instrument of Political Renewal in 19th-Century Germany / Francis G. Gentry -- The Influences of French Medievalism on Victorian Britain / Elizabeth Emery, Janet T. Marquardt -- Old English and Old Norse Studies to the Eighteenth Century / Timothy Graham -- Philology, Anglo-Saxonism, and National Identity / Will Abberley -- Toryism and the Young England Movement / Richard A. Gaunt -- The Oxford Movement, Asceticism and Sexual Desire / Dominic Janes -- Illuminating Propaganda: Radical Medievalism and Utopia in the Chartist Era / Ian Haywood -- Bodies and Buildings: Materialist Medievalism / Corinna Wagner -- Medievalism and Colonialism: Orientalizing Chile and India in the Age of British Militarized Mercantilism / Kathleen Davis, Nadia R. Altschul -- Ecclesiastical Gothic Revivalism / William Whyte -- Victorian Medievalism and Secular Design / Jim Cheshire -- The Gothic Revival Beyond Europe / G. A. Bremner -- The Pre-Raphaelites: Medievalism and Victorian Visual Culture / Ayla Lepine -- Validating the English Church / Graham Parry -- William Morris and Medievalism / Jan Marsh -- Revisiting the medievalism of the British Arts and Crafts Movement / Rosie Ibbotson -- Medievalist Music and Dance / John Haines -- Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: Medieval Modernism / Elizabeth Helsinger -- Women Writers and the Medieval / Clare Broome Saunders -- Building Utopia: The Structural Medievalism of William Morris's News from Nowhere / Marcus Waithe -- Mid-to-Late Victorian Medievalist Poetry / Antony H. Harrison -- Re-presenting Icelandic Saga Narrative for Victorian Readers / Heather O'Donoghue -- Anglo-Saxonism and the Victorian Novel / Joanne Parker -- Tennyson and the Return of King Arthur / Inga Bryden -- The Diggers and the Norman Yoke / Clare A. Simmons -- Introduction / Joanne Parker, Corinna Wagner -- The Ballad Revival and the Rise of Literary History / David Matthews -- Medieval Forgery / Jack Lynch -- Grimur Thorkelin, Rasmus Rask, and the Origins of Philology / Kirsten Wolf -- The Romantic Gothic Imagination / Joseph Crawford -- Gothic Ruins and Revivals: The Lake Poet's Architecture of the Past / Tom Duggett.
edited by Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner.
Includes bibliographical references and index.