Author : Kevin L. Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429576164
The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature by Kevin L. Morris Pdf
Originally published in 1984, The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature looks at the impact of medievalism in the 18th and 19th centuries and the importance of post-Enlightenment literary religious medievalism. The book suggests that religious medievalism was not a superficial cultural phenomenon and that the romantic spirit with which it was chronologically connected, was intimately associated with the metaphysical. The book suggests that this belief gave birth to the metaphysical yearning and cultural expression of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The book seeks to clarify the post-Enlightenment relationship between aesthetic culture and ‘aesthetic’ religion, romanticism, medievalism and religious trends.