Subaltern Medievalisms : Medievalism 'from below' in Nineteenth-Century Britain

✍ Scribed by David Matthews (editor); Mike Sanders (editor)

Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 229
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Towards a Subaltern Medieval Unconscious?
Part I Radicalism and Medievalism
1 Catholicism and Constitutionalism in William Cobbett’s English and Irish Medievalism
2 Resisting Medievalism: The ‘Mediaeval Mania’ and the Working-Class Press
3 How Radical was Rienzi? The Nineteenth-Century Representation of the Roman Revolutionary Republic
Part II Chartism and Medievalism
4 Chartism and Medievalism: Retrospective Radicalism in the English Nineteenth Century
5 Making Sense of Chartism’s Multiple Medievalisms
6 Rousing ‘the Spirit of Wat Tyler’: Chartist Newspaper Portrayals of the Rebel Leader
Part III Socialism, Feminism and Medievalism
7 The Cause of Liberty: Ford Madox Brown, Augustus Welby Pugin and Victorian Medievalism
8 Serfs, Saints and Comrades: Working-Class Medievalism and the Narratives of Victorian Socialism
9 Morbid Solidarity: Remains, Afterlives and the Commune of Saints
10 Finding the Present in the Past: Suffrage Medievalism in the Pages of Votes for Women
Bibliography
Index

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