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Order and Disorder in the Medieval Revival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Alice Chandler
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The medieval revival was a great imaginative force for more than a century in art, literature, politics, and culture. Its imprint is most visibly recorded in the architecture of the age which, with greater or lesser fidelity to the past, delivered its sermons in stones. It was also present in the whole texture of nineteenth-century thought: in the imagery with which it expressed and surrounded its daily life and in a broad network of values and ideas that similarly sought to recapture an idealized vision of history. Far more than Orientalism or Classicism, it took hold of the spirit of the age, causing a whole era to reverberate with the memories and associations of a half-actual, half-imagined past.

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Research Article
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 8 , Spring 1980 , pp. 1 - 9
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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NOTES

1. Chandler, Alice, A Dream of Order: The Medieval Ideal in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970).Google Scholar

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