B. Gothic Imaginings, Romanticism and Medieval Society as Modern Ideal

 

Alexander, Michael, Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England (New Haven & London, 2007), chaps. 1–2, 4–5.

Ballantyne, A., ‘Two nations, twice: national identity in The Wild Irish Girl and Sybil’, in D. Arnold (ed.), Cultural Identities and the Aesthetics of Britishness (Manchester, 2004), chap. 5.

Carruthers, G. and Alan Rawes (eds.), English Romanticism and the Celtic World (Cambridge, 2003).

*Emery, E.  and Morowitz, L., Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin de Siècle France (Aldershot, 2003), chap. 1, esp. pp. 15–19.

Feuchtwanger, E., Disraeli (London, 2000), esp. chap. 3:‘YoungEngland1841–1845’.

Fritzsche, P., Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History

    (Cambridge, MA, 2004), pp. 55–65 [on Chateaubriand].

*Girouard, M., The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman (London, 1981), chap. 3: ‘Sir Walter Scott’.

Hewison, Robert, Ruskin on Venice (New Haven, CT and London, 2009), Chap. 3 (‘Past and   

    Present: Scott, Hugo and Carlyle 1841–1844’) [Blackboard].

Hewitt, D., ‘Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832)’, ODNB, esp. ‘1814–1831: Scott the novelist’.

Hogle, J. E. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge, 2002).

Keller, B. G., The Middle Ages Reconsidered: Attitudes in France from the eighteenth century through the romantic movement (New York, 1994).

Killick, R., Victor Hugo: Notre-Dame de Paris (Glasgow, 1994).

Kudrycz, W.Historical Present: Medievalism and Modernity (London, 2011), chap. 3: ‘Golden ages and perfect presents: romanticism, idealism and the Middle Ages’.

 Also available as electronic book via Library catalogue.

Parry, J., ‘Disraeli, Benjamin, earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881)’, ODNB, esp. ‘Views on the crisis of the 1840s and the need for leadership’.

Simmons, C. A., Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain (Basingstoke, 2011).

Smith, Sheila M., The Other Nation: The Poor in English Novels of the 1840s and 1850s

     (Oxford, 1980).

Smith, Sheila M., ‘Introduction’, in Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil; or, The Two Nations, ed. S. M.

     Smith (Oxford, 1998), pp. vii–xvii [Blackboard].

Speck, W. A., ‘Robert Southey, Benjamin Disraeli and Young England’, History 95 (2010), 194–206.

Tulloch, Graham, ‘Introduction’, in Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, ed. G. Tulloch (London, 2000), pp. xi–xxix [Blackboard].

 

Primary sources

Carlyle, Thomas, Past and Present (London, 1843); reprint. in Thomas Carlyle, Selected Writings, ed. Alan Shelston (Harmondsworth, 1971; repr. 1986).

Disraeli, Benjamin, Sybil or The Two Nations (London, 1845; reprint. Harmondsworth, 1980; also: http://www.ibiblio.org/disraeli/sybil.pdf

Hugo, Victor, Notre-Dame de Paris [Paris, 1831], trans. Jessie Haynes (London, ?1900); trans. I. L. Hapgood, online (Project Gutenberg): http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2610/2610-h/2610-h.htm

Novalis [Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801)], Christianity or Europe: A

Fragment (1799): http://filepedia.org/christianity-or-europe-a-fragment [also Blackboard].

Owenson, Sydney, Lady Morgan, The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale (London, 1806; ed. K. Kirkpatrick, Oxford, 1999).

Pugin, A. W. N., Contrasts (London, 1841; repr. 1969).  Some images reproduced on-line at

     http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/c/contd/c.htm

Ruskin, John, ‘The nature of Gothic’, in idem, The Stones of Venice, II (London, 1853); repr.

     in John Ruskin, Selected Writings, ed. Dinah Birch (Oxford, 2004), 32–63.

Scott, Walter, Ivanhoe (London, 1820; ed. G. Cave, Harmondsworth, 1994).

 

Other web-based resources

The Thomas Gray Archive, ed. Alexander Huber: http://www.thomasgray.org/

Comprehensive website for the poet Thomas Gray (1716–71), author of ‘The Bard’.

The Walter Scott Digital Archive: www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk

e.g., biographical material on the novels of Walter Scott (1771–1832), electronic transcripts and images from his works, incl. Ivanhoe (1819).

 

 

C.  The Gothic Revival

 

Aldrich, Megan, Gothic Revival (London, 1994)

Atterbury, P. & Wainwright, C. (eds.), Pugin: a Gothic Passion (New Haven, CT, 1994).

*Brooks, C., The Gothic Revival (London, 1999)

Camille, M., The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity

(e-book available through library catalogue; Chicago, 2007).

Crook, J. Mordaunt, The Strange Genius of William Burges ‘Art-Architect’ (Cardiff, 1981).

Davies, John, Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute (Cardiff, 1981): pp. 21–30 (Bute, 1847–1900), pp. 137–43 (Burges and Cardiff Castle).

Emery, E.  and Morowitz, L., Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin de Siècle France (Aldershot, 2003), Chap. 4: ‘The Gothic cathedral in fin-de-siècle France’.

Eriksonas, L., National Heroes and National Identities: Scotland, Norway and Lithuania

       (Brussels, 2004), pp. 222–38 (on Trondheim Cathedral, Norway, and cult of Olaf)

       [Blackboard].

Hewison, R., Ruskin on Venice (New Haven, CT/London, 2009), pp. 78–81 (Victor Hugo and

       Notre-Dame, Paris); Chap. 12 ‘Saving St Mark’s: January 1887 to October 1888’ (on

       restoration of cathedral  of San Marco, Venice).

Hill, Rosemary, God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (London,

2008).

Jackson, Kevin, The Worlds of John Ruskin (London and Coniston, 2010).

*Lewis, M. J., The Gothic Revival (London, 2002).

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc:Englishness and Frenchness in the Appreciation of Gothic Architecture (London, 1969).

Rowan, Eric & Stewart, Carolyn, An Elusive Tradition: Art and Society in Wales 1870–1950 (Cardiff, 2002), chap. 1 ‘William Burges and the Marquess of Bute’ (pp. 5–32). 

Wagner, C. M., ‘“Standing proof of the degeneracy of modern times”: architecture, society, and the medievalism of A. W. N. Pugin’, in Holloway, L. M. and Palmgren, J. A. (eds.), Beyond Arthurian Romances: The Reach of Victorian Medievalism (New York, 2005), chap. 1.  Also available as electronic book (2006) via Library catalogue.

Wheeler, Michael; Whiteley, Nigel (eds.), The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition, and Architecture (Manchester, 1992).

 

Primary sources

Morris, William, Gothic Architecture: a lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society  

        (London, 1893).

Pugin, A. W. N., Contrasts (London, 1841; repr. 1969) [also Blackboard].  Some images   

       reproduced on-line at http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/c/contd/c.htm

‘Pugin’s Contrasts’:     

         http://exhibits.slpl.org/steedman/data/Steedman240090001.asp?thread=240091116

         On-line exhibition of sketch-book and made Pugin in 1833 for his book Contrasts (1st  

         edn 1836).

Rickman, Thomas, An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the 

        Conquest to the Reformation (1st edn 1817); 6th edn (London, 1862) available online on  

        Google Books:    http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QS4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA2&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Ruskin, John, The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from his Writings (Boston, 1963; repr.

         1979).

Ruskin, John, Selected Writings, ed. Dinah Birch (Oxford, 2004).

Ruskin, John, The Works of John Ruskin, ed. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, 39 vols.

         (London and New York, 1903–12).

 

Other web-based resource

William Burges 1827–1881 (by Mark Golding):

http://www.achome.co.uk/williamburges/index.php?page=home

Includes a brief chronology and many colour illustrations of Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch.

 

 

 

 

D. The Pre-Raphaelites

 

Bell, Quentin, ‘The Pre-Raphaelites and their critics’, in Leslie Parris (ed.), Pre-Raphaelite Papers (London, 1984), 11–22 [Blackboard].

Boyle, Elizabeth, ‘“The impiety of the intellect”: Whitley Stokes and the Pre-Raphaelites’, in Elizabeth Boyle and Paul Russell (eds.), The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909) (Dublin, 2011), 44–58 [Blackboard].

Bullen, J. B., ‘Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–1882)’, ODNB.

Calloway, Stephen and Orr, Lynn Federle (eds.), The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860–1900 (London, 2011).

Christian, John (ed.), The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art, Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer (London, 1989).

*Cooper, Robyn, ‘The Relationship between the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Painters before Raphael in English Criticism of the late 1840s and 1850s’, Victorian Studies 24 (1981), 405–38.

Cruise, Colin, Pre-Raphaelite Drawing (London, 2011).

Faxon, A. C., Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Oxford, 1989).

Fleming, G. H., Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (London, 1967).

Harrison, M. & Waters, B., Burne-Jones (1973; 2nd edn. London, 1989). [Glyndŵr]

Hilton, Tim, The Pre-Raphaelites (London, 1970).

Hilton, Tim, John Ruskin, 2 vols (New Haven, CT, 1985–2000).

Jasper, David, ‘Pre-Raphaelite Biblical Art in Wales’, in Martin O’Kane and John Morgan-Guy (eds.), Biblical Art from Wales (Sheffield, 2010), 139–53.

MacCarthy, Fiona, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination (London, 2011).

Mancoff, D. N., The Arthurian Revival in Victorian Art (New York, 1990).

Mander, Rosalie, ‘Rossetti and the Oxford murals, 1857’, in Leslie Parris (ed.), Pre-Raphaelite Papers (London, 1984), 171–83 [Blackboard].

Nicoll, J., The Pre-Raphaelites (London, 1970).

Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection (London, 2003). [Glyndŵr]

*Prettejohn, E., The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites (revd edn, London, 2007).

Rose, A., The Pre-Raphaelites (London, 1992). [Glyndŵr/Normal]

Spalding, F., Magnificent Dreams: Burne-Jones and the Late Victorians (Oxford, 1978). [Glyndŵr]

Staley, Allen, The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape (Oxford, 1973).

Sussman, Herbert, ‘The Language of Criticism and the Language of Art: The Response of Victorian Periodicals to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’, Victorian Periodicals Newsletter 19 (March 1973), 21–9.

Treuherz, Julian, Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer (London, 2011).

Treuherz, Julian, ‘The Pre-Raphaelites and mediaeval illuminated manuscripts’, in Leslie Parris (ed.), Pre-Raphaelite Papers (London, 1984), 153–69 [Blackboard].

Waggoner, Diane, The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848–1875 (Farnham, 2010).

Wood, C., The Pre-Raphaelites (London, 1981; repr. 1997).

 

Primary sources

Braddon, Mary E., Lady Audley’s Secret (1862; London, 1985). Novelist’s brief description of

      imaginary Pre-Raphaelite portrait [Blackboard].

Dickens, Charles, ‘Old lamps for new ones’, Household Words, 1, no. 12 (15 June 1850),

      265–7; repr. in Charles Harrison, Paul Wood and Jason Gaiger (eds.), Art in Theory,

      1815–1900: An  Anthology of Changing Ideas (Oxford, 1998), 434–8 [also Blackboard].

The Germ: The Literary Magazine of the Pre-Raphaelites, preface by Andrea Rose ([1850] 

      repr. Oxford/Birmingham, 1979); also online, e.g.

      http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/courses/ennc986/germ.html

The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1 (1856) [ed. Edward Burne-Jones and William

      Morris]; available online via Library catalogue – ProQuest British Periodicals Collection.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, ‘Hand and soul’, The Germ, no. 1 (Jan. 1850), 23–32; repr. in Charles  

      Harrison, Paul Wood and Jason Gaiger (eds.), Art in Theory, 1815–1900: An  Anthology   

      of Changing Ideas (Oxford, 1998), 426–34 [also Blackboard].

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, Letters, ed. Oswald Doughty and John Robert Wahl, 4 vols. (Oxford,

      1965–7).

Rossetti, William Michael, The P.R.B. Journal. William Michael Rossetti’s Diary of the Pre-

      Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1849–1853, together with other Pre-Raphaelite Documents, ed.

      William E. Fredeman (Oxford, 1975).

Rossetti, William Michael, The Pre-Raphaelites and their World: A Personal View (repr.

      London, 1995).

Ruskin, John, The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from his Writings (1963; repr. 1979).

Ruskin, John, Selected Writings, ed. Dinah Birch (Oxford, 2004).

Ruskin, John, The Works of John Ruskin, 39 vols. (London, 1903–12).

Buchanan, Robert, The Fleshly School of Poetry [London, 1872, orig. published 1871], and

      Swinburne, Algernon Charles, Under the Microscope [London, 1872] (repr. New York,  

      1986).

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, ‘The stealthy school of criticism’, The Athenaeum, no. 2303 (16 Dec.

      1871), 792–4 [response to Buchanan]; available online via Library catalogue – ProQuest

      British Periodicals Collection.

 *‘The Times Critic and John Ruskin (1819–1900) Exchange on the Pre-Raphaelites [1851]’,

      repr. in Charles Harrison, Paul Wood and Jason Gaiger (eds.), Art in Theory, 1815–1900:  

      An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Oxford, 1998), 440–6 [also Blackboard].

 

Web-based resources

*Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, ‘Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource’:

            http://www.preraphaelites.org/

While focused on collections in Birmingham, a good general starting point, which includes ‘learning resources’ on various aspects of Pre-Raphaelite art, inc. ‘Gender and Sexuality’.

Links to Pre-Raphaelite Websites: www.dlc.fi/~hurmari/preraph.htm

The Rossetti Archive: www.rossettiarchive.org

Good site for the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–82).

McGann, J. J., ‘An Introduction to D. G. Rossetti’:

http://www.rossettiarchive.org/racs/bio-exhibit/index.html

McCarthy, Fiona, ‘Secure me a famous wall’: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/may/17/art.art

Article on famous picture by Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98), ‘The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon’.

 

 

 

E. William Morris

 

Faulkner, P. (ed.), William Morris: the Critical Heritage (London, 1973).

Frith, R., ‘“The worship of courage”: William Morris’s Sigurd the Volsung and Victorian medievalism’, in Holloway, L. M. and Palmgren, J. A. (eds.), Beyond Arthurian Romances: The Reach of Victorian Medievalism (New York, 2005), chap. 6. 

Also available as electronic book (2006) via Library catalogue.

*Harris, Jennifer, ‘William Morris and the Middle Ages’, in J. Banham and J. Harris (eds.), William Morris and the Middle Ages (Manchester, 1984), 1–17. [Blackboard]

Lindsay, J., William Morris: His Life and Work (London, 1975).

*MacCarthy, F., William Morris: A Life for our Time (London, 1994).

MacCarthy, F., ‘Morris, William (1834–1896)’, ODNB.

Thompson, E. P., William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (London, 1955; repr. Stanford, CA, 1988).

Waithe, M., William Morris’s Utopia of Strangers: Victorian Medievalism and the Ideal of Hospitality (Woodbridge, 2006).

Wawn, Andrew, The Vikings and the Victorians (Woodbridge, 2000; paperback edn., 2002), Chap. 9: ‘William Morris and the Old Grey North’, esp. pp. 276–9.

 

Primary sources

Morris, William, The Collected Works of William Morris (London, 1910–15).

Morris, William, News from Nowhere, and Selected Writings and Designs, ed. A. Briggs (Harmondsworth, 1962; repr. 1986).

Morris, William, ‘How I became a socialist’ (1894):

        http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1894/hibs/hibs.htm

        Also in Morris’s Collected Works, vol. XXIII (1915), 277–81.

Morris, William, ‘Art and industry in the fourteenth century’ (1890):

        http://www.archive.org/details/architectureindu00morriala

        Also in his Architecture, Industry and Wealth: Collected Papers (1902), 228–46; and his  

        Collected Works, vol. XXII (1914), 375–90.

Parry, L., William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement: A Source Book (London, 1989).

Kelmscott Chaucer: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/landprint/kelmscott/index.html

Typographic Examples: William Morris, Printer:

         http://library.rit.edu/cary/cc_db/19th_century/16.html

         Images of ‘Kelmscott Chaucer’ (1896).

 

Other web-based resources

The William Morris Society Web Site: www.morrissociety.org

Graphic Design and Visual Culture in Europe 1890-1945. Private Press Books in Special Collections: Kelmscott Press: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/teach/privatepress/kelmscott.html.

 

 

F. Chivalry, King Arthur and National Heroes

 

*Barczewski, S. L., Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: the Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood (Oxford, 2000).

Bell, B., ‘The performance of Victorian medievalism’, in in Holloway, L. M. and Palmgren, J. A. (eds.), Beyond Arthurian Romances: The Reach of Victorian Medievalism (New York, 2005), chap. 10.  Also available as electronic book (2006) via Library catalogue.

       On dramatizations of Walter Scott’s novels and also mock tournaments.

Brooks, Chris; Bryden, Inga, ‘The Arthurian legacy’, in  W. R. J. Barron (ed.), The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature (Cardiff, 1991), 247–64, 364–9.

Bryden, I., Reinventing King Arthur: the Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture (Aldershot, 2005).

*Girouard, Mark, The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman (New Haven, CT & London, 1981).

Glencross, M., Reconstructing Camelot: French Romantic Medievalism and the Arthurian Tradition (Cambridge, 1995).

Goebel, S., The Great War and Medieval Memory: Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914–40 (Cambridge, 2007).

     Review by Bernd Huppauf, The German Quarterly, Summer 2008: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7067/is_3_81/ai_n28558719/pg_2?tag=artBody;col1

Harrison, A., ‘Arthurian poetry and medievalism’, in R. Cronin, A. Chapman, and A. H.

     Harrison (eds.), A Companion to Victorian Poetry (Malden, MA, 2002), chap. 13.

Jones, M., ‘What should historians do with heroes? Reflections on nineteenth- and twentieth-

     century Britain’, History Compass, 5/2 (2007), 439–54 [Blackboard].

Keynes, S., ‘The cult of King Alfred the Great’, Anglo-Saxon England, 28 (1999), 225–356.

Mancoff, D. N. (ed.), The Arthurian Revival: Essays on Form, Tradition, and Transformation (New York, 1992).

Oergel, M., The Return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen: national myth in nineteenth-century English and German literature (New York, 1998) – esp..

chap. 4 – section ‘ “Volkspoesie” and the Nibelungen: Görres, Wilhelm Grimm, Uhland’ (pp. 123–36) [Volkspoesie = ‘Poetry of the [common] people’];

chap. 5 – section ‘The Representative Suitability of the Figures of Siegfried and Arthur as National Heroes’ (pp. 192–9 on Siegfried) [sections also on Blackboard].

Padel, O. J., ‘Arthur’, ODNB (esp. sections on ‘The nineteenth century and opera’; ‘Twentieth-century literature and film’).

Saunders, C. B., Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism (New York, 2009), esp. chap. 5 (Queenship, Chivalry, and “Queenly” Women in the Age ofVictoria); chap. 6 (Guinevere: The Medieval Queen in the Nineteenth Century).

Electronic book available via Library catalogue.

Schwab, S. M., ‘What is a man? The refuting of the chivalric ideal at the end of the century’,

     in Holloway, L. M. and Palmgren, J. A. (eds.), Beyond Arthurian Romances: The Reach of

     Victorian Medievalism (New York, 2005), chap. 11.

     Also available as electronic book (2006) via Library catalogue.

Simpson, R., Camelot Regained: the Arthurian Revival and Tennyson, 1800–1849 (Cambridge, 1990).

Wood, Juliette, ‘The Holy Grail: from romance motif to modern genre’, Folklore, 111:2 (2000), 169–90 [also Blackboard].

Yorke, B., ‘Alfredism: the use and abuse of King Alfred’s reputation in later centuries’, in T. Reuter (ed.), Alfred the Great: papers from the eleventh-centenary conferences (Aldershot, 2003), chap. 21.

 

 

G. Music, Drama & Film

 

Barclay, D., ‘Representing the middle ages: court festivals in nineteenth-century Prussia’, in R. Utz a T. Shippey (eds), Medievalism in the Modern World (Cambridge, 1998), 105–16 [Blackboard].

Bell, B., ‘The performance of Victorian medievalism’, in in Holloway, L. M. and Palmgren, J. A. (eds.), Beyond Arthurian Romances: The Reach of Victorian Medievalism (New York, 2005), chap. 10.  Also available as electronic book (2006) via Library catalogue.

       On dramatizations of Walter Scott’s novels and also mock tournaments.

Blaetz, R., ‘Cecil B. DeMille’s Joan the Woman’, in Verduin, K. (ed.), Medievalism in North America (Studies in Medievalism, VI; Cambridge, 1994), 109–22.

Datta, Venita, Heroes and Legends of fin-de-siècle France: Gender, Politics, and National

    Identity (2011), chap. 4: ‘On the Boulevards: Representations ofJoanofArcin the Popular

    Theater’. Electronic book available via Library catalogue.

*Emery, E. a Morowitz, L., Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin de Siècle France (Aldershot, 2003), chap. 7: ‘Feasts, fools and festivals: the popular Middle Ages’.

Magee, E., Richard Wagner and the Nibelungs (Oxford, 1990).

*Ortenberg, V., In Search of the Holy Grail: The Quest for the Middle Ages (London, 2006), chap. 8: ‘Camelot goes celluloid’.

Pfau, T., ‘Richard Wagner: opera and music-drama’, inC. Koelb and E. Downing (eds.), German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832–1899 (Rochester, NY, 2005).

Readman, P., ‘The place of the past in English culture c.1890–1914’, Past & Present, 186 (Feb. 2005), 147–99.

Richards, S. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-century Irish Drama (Cambridge, 2004).

Sabor, R., Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen: a companion volume (London, 1997).

Simmons, C. A., Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain (Basingstoke, 2011), chap. 3: ‘Medievalism onstage in the French revolutionary era’.

Trotter, M., ‘Gregory, Yeats and Ireland’s Abbey Theatre’, in M. Luckhurst (ed.), A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880–2005 (Malden, MA/Oxford, 2006), chap. 7.

Williams, S., Wagner and the Romantic hero (New York, 2004).

Young, P. M., Elgar, Newman and the Dream of Gerontius: in the tradition of English Catholicism (Aldershot, 1995).

 

Primary sources

A Bangor Historical Pageant, written by the Students (Bangor, 1924).

Books of Words of the Historical Pageant Harlech Castle, August 21st. to August 26th., 1922 ([Newtown] 1922).

DeMille, Cecil B., Joan the Woman (1916).  [Film]

Hawtrey, G. P. and ‘Owen Rhoscomyl’, The National Pageant of Wales (Cardiff, 1909).

Lang, Fritz, Siegfried (1924).  [Film]

The Oxford historical pageant, June 27–July 3, 1907 (Oxford, 1907).

Wagner, Richard, The Ring of the Nibelungen (London, 1977).

 

 

H. Medievalism and National Identity, especially in Germany

 

Antonsen, E. H. with Marchand, J. W. a Zgusta, L., The Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Past (Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 1990).

Barclay, David, ‘Representing the middle ages: court festivals in nineteenth-century Prussia’,

in Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman (Turnhout, 1998), 105–16 [Blackboard]. 

*Brooks, C., The Gothic Revival (London, 1999), chap. 10 (esp. pp. 261–8).

Burrow, J. W., A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past (Cambridge, 

    1981). [Glyndŵr]

Evans, R. J. W. and Marchal, G. P. (eds.), The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European

    States: History, Nationhood and the Search for Origins (Houndmills, 2011). 

    Papers on Ireland, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, the Balkans and central Europe, e.g.:

    Fewster, Derek, ‘“Braves step out of the night of the barrows”: regenerating the heritage of 

    early medieval Finland’ (Chap. 4).

Fewster, Derek, Visions of Past Glory: Nationalism and the Construction of Early Finnish

    History (Helsinki, 2006), esp. section, ‘High national medievalism – the politics of Finnish  

    antiquity ca 1890–1918’.

*Fritzsche, P., Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History

(Cambridge, MA, 2004), chap. 3 (‘Ruins’: on attitudes to medieval buildings such as the castles of the Rhine valley and Cologne Cathedral).

Haymes, E. R., ‘Introduction’, in Das Nibelungenlied: Song of the Nibelungs, trans. Burton

Raffel (New Haven, CT and London, 2006), pp. xiii–xxi [Blackboard].

Leerssen, J., National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History (Amsterdam, 2006), esp. 119–26 (‘Napoleon and the Rise of National Historicism’).  Electronic book (available via library catalogue).

Magee, E., Richard Wagner and the Nibelungs (Oxford, 1990).

Mahoney, D. F. (ed.), The Literature of German Romanticism (Rochester, NY, 2004).

Müller, U., ‘“Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles”? Walther von der Vogelweide, Hoffmann

von Fallersleben and the “Song of the Germans”: Medievalism, nationalism and/or fascism’, in Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman (Cambridge, 1998), 117–29 [Blackboard].

Oergel, M., The return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen: national myth in nineteenth-century English and German literature (New York, 1998) – esp.

chap. 4 – section ‘ “Volkspoesie” and the Nibelungen: Görres, Wilhelm Grimm, Uhland’ (tt. 123–36) [Volkspoesie = ‘Poetry of the [common] people’];

chap. 5 – section ‘The Representative Suitability of the Figures of Siegfried and Arthur as National Heroes’ (pp. 192–9 on Siegfried)

[sections also Blackboard].

Pfau, T., ‘Richard Wagner: opera and music-drama’, inC. Koelb and E. Downing (eds.), German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832–1899 (Rochester, NY, 2005).

Thorp, M., The Study of the Nibelungenlied; being the history of the study of the epic and legend from 1755 to 1937(Oxford, 1940).

Wawn, A., The Vikings and the Victorians (Woodbridge, 2000).

Williams, S., Wagner and the Romantic Hero (New York, 2004).

 

Web-based resources

Kyffhäuser: http://www.kyffhaeuser-denkmal.de/web/en/home/home.asp

Website for the memorial erected 1890–6 in the mountains of the Kyffhäuser to commemorate Emperor Wilhelm I (1871–88) and portrayed as legend of the Emperor Fredrick Barbarossa (1152–90) waking up from his sleep there and restoring the German Empire.

Pringle, Heather, ‘Heinrich Himmler: The Nazi Leader’s Master Plan’ (2007):

http://www.historynet.com/heinrich-himmler-the-nazi-leaders-master-plan.htm

Sørensen, Tonje H., ‘The creation of a visual memory culture in Germany through

monuments’ (on Goslar and the Kyffhäuser; 14 pp.):

http://nordik.uib.no/nordik2006/papers/TonjeHSorensenPaper.pdf.

 

 

I. Medievalism in France

 

Bales, R., Proust and the Middle Ages (Geneva, 1975).

*Brooks, C., The Gothic Revival (London, 1999), chap. 10 (esp. pp. 268–75).

Camille, M., The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity

    (e-book available through library catalogue; Chicago, 2007).

Dictionary of Art Historians, ‘Viollet-le-Duc’:  

    http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/violletleduce.htm

DiVanna, Isabel, Reconstructing the Middle Ages: Gaston Paris and the Development of

    Nineteenth-Century Medievalism (2008), Chap. 1: ‘Have we been here before? The    

    medievalisms of then and now’ – available on-line:

    http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0064-8-sample.pdf

*Emery, Elizabeth and Morowitz, Laura, Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin

    de Siècle France (Aldershot, 2003).

Fritzsche, P., Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History

    (Cambridge, MA, 2004), pp. 55–65 [on Chateaubriand].

Gildea, Robert, The Past in French History (New Haven, CT/London, 1994), 154–65

    (‘Joan of Arc’).

Glencross, G., Reconstructing Camelot: French Romantic Medievalism and the Arthurian

     Tradition (Cambridge, 1995), chap. 4: ‘In Search of National Identity’.

*Hewison, Robert, Ruskin on Venice (New Haven, CT/London, 2009), Chap. 3 (‘Past and   

    Present: Scott, Hugo and Carlyle 1841–1844’) [Blackboard].

Killick, R., Victor Hugo: Notre-Dame de Paris (Glasgow, 1994).

Lloyd, Christopher,  J.-K. Huysmans and the Fin-de-siècle Novel (Edinburgh, 1990).

Saunders, C. B., Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism (New York, 2009), chap. 4 (The End ofChivalry?: JoanofArc and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Writer).

    Electronic book available via Library catalogue.

Datta, Venita, Heroes and Legends of fin-de-siècle France: Gender, Politics, and National

    Identity (2011), chap. 4: ‘On the Boulevards: Representations ofJoanofArcin the Popular

    Theater’. Electronic book available via Library catalogue.

 

Primary sources

Chateaubriand, François-René, The Genius of Christianity [1802], trans. C. I. White (Philadelphia, 1856): http://ia700400.us.archive.org/29/items/geniuschristiani00chatuoft/geniuschristiani00chatuoft.pdf

Hugo, Victor, Notre-Dame de Paris [Paris, 1831], trans. Jessie Haynes (London, ?1900); trans. I. L. Hapgood, online (Project Gutenberg): http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2610/2610-h/2610-h.htm

 

 

J. The Celtic Revival

 

Berger, Pamela, ‘The historical, the sacred, the romantic: medieval texts into Irish

watercolours’, in Adele M. Dalsimer (ed.), Visualizing Ireland: National Identity and the Pictorial Tradition (Boston, MA and London, 1993), 71–87 [Blackboard].

*Bromwich, Rachel, ‘The Mabinogion and Lady Charlotte Guest’, Transactions of the   

    Honourable  Society of Cymmrodorion (1986), 127–41; repr. in Wheeler, Bonnie and  

    Tohurst, Fiona (eds.), On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries (2001).

Brown, Terence (ed.), Celticism (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA, 1996).

Carruthers, G. and Alan Rawes (eds.), English romanticism and the Celtic world (2003).

Davies, Sioned, ‘A charming Guest: translating the Mabinogion’, Studia Celtica, 38 (2004),

     157–78.

Davies, W. Beynon, Thomas Gwynn Jones (Cardiff, 1970), esp. pp. 1–11 on the poem

Ymadawiad Arthur (‘The Passing of Arthur’;1902).

Foster, R. F., W. B. Yeats: A Life (1997–).

Garrigan Mattar, Sinéad, Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival (Oxford, 2004), chap. 5:

    ‘Lady Gregory: The Primitive Picturesque’, esp. pp. 216–27 on Cuchulain of Muirthemne.

Guest, R. & John, A. V., Lady Charlotte Guest: An Extraordinary Life (Stroud, 2007). (Revised edn. of, Lady Charlotte: A Biography of the Nineteenth Century (London, 1989).)

Howes, M. and Kelly, J., The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (Cambridge, 2006).

John, A. V., ‘Schreiber [née Bertie; other married name Guest], Lady Charlotte Elizabeth (1812–1895)’, ODNB.

Kohfeldt, M. L., Lady Gregory: the Woman behind the Irish Renaissance (London, 1984).

*Leerssen, J., Remembrance and Imagination: Patterns in the Historical and Literary Representation of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (Cork, 1996), inc. pp. 198–207: ‘Lady Gregory’s Táin: between Kiltartan and Muirthemne’.

Llywelyn-Williams, A., Y nos, y niwl, a'r ynys: agweddau ar y profiad rhamantaidd yng Nghymru 1890–1914 (Cardiff, 1960).

*Lord, Peter, The Visual Culture of Wales: Imaging the Nation (Cardiff, 2000).

Marsh, K., ‘Lady Charlotte (Elizabeth) Guest’ – short article available on-line:

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/auth/guestbio.htm

Morgan, Paul Bennett, ‘Bronwydd and Sir Thomas Lloyd’, National Library of Wales

    Journal 23 (1983–4), 377–405.

O’Leary, P., The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921 (n.p., 1994).

Pethica, J. L., ‘Gregory [née Persse], (Isabella) Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852–1932)’, ODNB.

Pryce, Huw, ‘Culture, identity, and the medieval revival in Victorian Wales’, Proceedings of

    the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 31 (forthcoming, 2012) [Blackboard].

Smith, Llinos Beverley, ‘Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and the Welsh historical consciousness’,

    Welsh History Review 12 (1984–5), 1–28, esp. 6–7, 24–7.

 

Primary sources

Anon., ‘George Petrie’, Dublin University Magazine, Volume 14, No. 84, December 1839 (on-line: www.libraryireland.com/articles/PetrieDUM14-84/index.php).

Arnold, Matthew, ‘On the Study of Celtic Literature’, in The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, 3: Lectures and Essays in Criticism, ed. R. H. Super (Ann Arbor, MI, 1962), 291–395.

Ellis, Thomas E., ‘The memory of the Kymric dead’ [1892], in idem Speeches and Addresses (Wrexham, 1912), 3–26.

Lady Gregory, The Coole Edition [of Lady Gregory’s Works] (1970–).

Guest, Charlotte E. (transl.), The Mabinogion (1877; reprint. 1906, 1981, 1997).

J[ones], H. L., ‘On the study and preservation of national antiquities’, Archaeologia Cambrensis 1 (1846), 3–16.

Jones, T. Gwynn, ‘Ymadawiad Arthur’ (1902, and later editions).

Petrie, George, The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, anterior to the Anglo-Norman invasion; comprising an essay on the origin and uses of the round towers of Ireland (2nd edn., Dublin, 1845).

 

 

 

K. American Medievalism

 

DeVoto, Marya, ‘The hero as editor: Sidney Lanier’s medievalism and the science of manhood’, in Leslie J. Workman, Kathleen Verduin and David D. Metzger (eds.), Medievalism and the Academy I (Studies in Medievalism, IX; Cambridge, 1997), 148–70.

*Fleming, R., ‘Picturesque history and the medieval in nineteenth-century America’, American Historical Review, 100 (1995), 1064–91.

Lupack, A. and Lupack, B. T., King Arthur in America (Rochester, NY, 1999).

‘Medieval America’: special number of the journal American Literary History, 24: 4 (2010).

Moreland, K., The Medievalist Impulse in American Literature (Charlottsville, VA, 1996),

     esp. chap. 1: ‘The once and future America: reviving the middle ages’ [available on-line  

     through ‘Google Books’: http://books.google.co.uk/].

*Verduin, K. (ed.), Medievalism in North America (Studies in Medievalism, VI; Cambridge,

     1994). [Most chapters available through ‘Google Books’: http://books.google.co.uk/].

 

Primary sources

Twain Mark, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889; repr. 1971, 1998).

 

Other web-based material

Alletta Nathalie Lorillard Bailey Morris (1883–1935) – collection of photographs of Gothic 

     Revival architecture in the USA:

     http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery/da/morris_nathalie.html

‘American Gothic Revival 1830–1860’; ‘American (High) Victorian Gothic 1860–1890’:

     http://www.buffaloah.com/a/archsty/gothic/index.html#Rev

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court:     

     http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/yankee/cyhompg.html

A Digital Archive of American Architecture – ‘The Gothic Revival’ (numerous images):

     http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/gothicrev.html

James, Henry, ‘The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail. Wall paintings in the Boston  

     Public Library installed in 1895. By Edwin Austin Abbey, R.A.’:

     http://www.bpl.org/central/abbey.htm

Powell, Carrie Ann (1995), The Gothic Revival’s Survival in the United States:

     http://www.afn.org/~afn03098/cppaper.htm

Works of Art: The Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York):

     http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/the_cloisters

     Introduction to the history and collections of the ‘Cloisters’, part of the Metropolitan   

     Museum of Art. See also Stephen Murray, ‘Medievalism and the Metropolitan …’:

     http://www.learn.columbia.edu/medmil/pages/non-mma-pages/syllabus/lecture-02.html