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The Myth of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Writing (Hardcover)
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The Myth of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Writing (Hardcover)
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Few people who use the word 'Renaissance' today realize that it is
a comparatively recent historical idea, or that it is a 'myth' or
story constructed by writers to explain the past. In this
innovative and wide-ranging study, J. B. Bullen traces the genesis
of that myth back to the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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 within 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, in its aesthetics and 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 contribution 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.
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