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Romantic Medievalism: History and the Romantic Literary Ideal

Romantic Medievalism: History and the Romantic Literary Ideal

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0333970071
ISBN13: 9780333970072
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 17 2001
Pages: 233
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.76
Language: English
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.

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