Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain [electronic resource] /
Simmons, C.author.
Through the consideration of canonical authors such as Blake, Scott, and Wordsworth and of lesser-studied works such as radical press writings and popular drama, this study explores the imaginative appeal of the social structures and literary forms of the Middle Ages, and how they raised awareness of Britain's tradition of freedom.
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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.
Through the consideration of canonical authors such as Blake, Scott, and Wordsworth and of lesser-studied works such as radical press writings and popular drama, this study explores the imaginative appeal of the social structures and literary forms of the Middle Ages, and how they raised awareness of Britain's tradition of freedom.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature, Medieval.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Medieval Literature.