Beyond Arthurian romances: the reach of Victorian medievalism

Introduction / Lorretta M. Holloway and Jennifer Palmgren

1. "Standing proof of the degeneracy of modern times" : architecture, society, and the medievalism of A. W. N. Pugin / Corinna M. Wagner

2. "Knight, bard, gallant" : the troubadour as a critique of Romanticism in Browning's Sordello / Britta Martens

3. Charlotte Yonge's Victorian Normans in The little duke / Sarah R. Wakefield

4. "And the golden halls were dumb" : Norse fatalism and mourning in Matthew Arnold's Balder dead / Kim Zarins

5. Lessons from the medieval convent : Adelaide Procter's "A legend of Provence" / Christine A. Colon

6. "The worship of courage" : William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung and Victorian medievalism / Richard Frith

7. gallows nightingale : Swinburne's translations of Villon / Nick Freeman

8. Counter-medievalism : or, Protestants rewrite the Middle Ages / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein

9. Where medieval romance meets Victorian reality : the "woman question" in William Morris's The wood beyond the world / Lori Campbell

10. performance of Victorian medievalism / Barbara Bell

11. What is a man? : the refuting of the chivalric ideal at the turn of the century / Sandra Martina Schwab.