The myth of the Renaissance in nineteenth-century writing
1994, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #419521
ISBN: 0198128886
Physical description; 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. The foundations of Renaissance historiography in the eighteenth century: Voltaire and Gibbon -- 2. The genesis of the Renaissance: Seroux d'Agincourt -- 3. The Renaissance among the historians: Roscoe and Sismondi -- 4. The Renaissance among the French Romantics -- 5. The Renaissance as revived paganism: A. W. Pugin -- 6. The Renaissance and Protestant confusion: England in the 1840s -- 7. The Renaissance as fall from grace: John Ruskin -- 8. The Renaissance as rediscovery: Michelet and Quinet -- 9. Renaissance men and women: browning -- 10. The Renaissance and regeneration: George Eliot -- 11. The Renaissance revised: England in the 1860s -- 12. The Renaissance as enactment: Walter Pater. Subjects; Pater, Walter 1839-1894. Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore 1812-1852. Ruskin, John 1819-1900. Seroux D'Agincourt, Jean Baptiste 1730-1814. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Renaissance in literature. French literature 19th century History and criticism. Renaissance Historiography. Myth in literature. Romanticism. Languages & Literatures.
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