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The Myth of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Writing
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The seeds of the idea are to be found in Voltaire, but Dr Bullen shows how it was taken up by French art historians and Gothic revivalists as an important element in the acrimonious political and religious debates with French historiography,. The book's main focus, however, is on English intellectual life and the ways in which writers like Pugin, Ruskin, Browning, and George Eliot took up the terms established by Hugo, Rio, and Michelet in France and adapted a reading of fifteenth-century Italy to suit the special conditions of Victorian England. Ultimately, in the work of Swinburne, Arnold, Pater, and Symonds the Renaissance became a key factor in relating ethics and aesthetics, and in its late nineteenth-century phase, the myth figures prominently in an important discussion about the relationship between power, authority, and individualism.
The Myth of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Writing is a major conribution to the analysis of a neglected aspect of Victorian intellectual life and will be essential reading for all scholars and students of the nineteenth century.
Product details
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 352
- Release Date:
- 1994-03-24
- Publication Date:
- 1989-03-01
- Publisher:
- OUP Oxford
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0198128886
- ISBN13:
- 9780198128885
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 628 g
- Height:
- 145 cm
- Width:
- 222 cm
- Thickness:
- 24 cm
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