Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. xxviii, 281 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. CONTENTS: Introduction; The advent of the Goths: the medieval in the 1760s; Chivalry, romances and revival: Chaucer into Scott: The lay of the last minstrel and Ivanhoe; Dim religious lights: The lay, Christabel and 'The eve of St Agnes'; 'Residences for the poor': the Pugin of Contrasts; Back to the future in the 1840s: Carlyle, Ruskin, Sybil, Newman; 'The death of Arthur was the favourite volume': Malory into Tennyson; History, the revival and the PRB: Westminster, Ivanhoe, visions and revisions; History and legend: the subjects of poetry and painting; The working men and the common good: Madox Brown, Maurice, Morris, Hopkins; Among the lilies and the weeds: Hopkins, Whistler, Burne-Jones, Beardsley; 'I have seen--a white horse': Chesterton, Yeats, Ford, Pound; Modernist medievalism: Eliot, Pound, Jones; Twentieth-century Christendom: Waugh, Auden, Inklings, Hill; Epilogue: 'riding through the glen.'. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.