History and Community

History and Community
Author: Florence S. Boos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317299523

The essays in this volume, originally published in 1992, examine some of the pervasive implications of Victorian medievalism, and assess its creative manifestations and dual capacities for expression of reformist anger and escapist retreat. Some of the emotional and intllectual reasons for the strong Victorian attraction to ‘medieval’ history and litereature are discussed and emblematic responses to this attraction are examined.