Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature, Hardcover by M...

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Originally published in 1984, The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature looks at the impact of medievalism in the 18^th and 19^th centuries and the importance of post-Enlightenment literary religious medievalism. Th 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. Th suggests that this belief gave birth to the metaphysical yearning and cultural expression of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Th seeks to clarify the post-Enlightenment relationship between aesthetic culture and 'aesthetic’ religion, romanticism, medievalism and religious trends.