'England's darling' : the Victorian cult of Alfred the Great

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    • Parker, Joanne

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'England's darling' : the Victorian cult of Alfred the Great

Joanne Parker

Manchester University Press, 2014, c2007

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England's darling : the Victorian cult of Alfred the Great

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Originally published: Manchester Univ. Press in hardback, 2007

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-238) and index

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For much of the nineteenth century, King Alfred was as important as King Arthur in the British popular imagination. A pervasive cult of the King developed which included the erection of at least four public statues, the completion of more than twenty-five paintings, and the publication of over a hundred texts, by authors ranging from Wordsworth to minor women writers. By 1852, J.A. Froude could describe Alfred's life as 'the favourite story in English nurseries'; in 1901, a national holiday marked the thousandth anniversary of his death, organised by a committee including Edward Burne Jones, Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hughes. The book examines the ways in which Alfred was rewritten by nineteenth-century authors and artists, and asks how beliefs about the Saxon king's reign and achievements related to nineteenth-century ideals about leadership, law, religion, commerce, education and the Empire. The book concludes by addressing the most interesting enigma in Alfred's reception history: why is the king no longer 'England's darling'? A fascinating study that will be enjoyed by scholars of history, cultural history, literature and art history. -- .

目次

1. The day of a thousand years: Alfred and the Victorian mania for commemoration 2. Medievalism, Anglo-Saxonism, and the nineteenth century 3. Turning a king into a hero: nine hundred years of pre-Victorian reinvention 4. The hero as king: Alfred and nineteenth-century politics 5. 'The root and spring of everything we love in church and state': Alfred and Victorian progress 6. 'The most perfect character in history': Alfred and Victorian morality 7. 'Never to be confused with King Arthur': Alfred after Victoria Index -- .

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