The Renaissance, English Cultural Nationalism, and Modernism, 1860-1920

This valuable study offers new insights and contextualization regarding the relation of nationalism to modernism. Hinojosa shows how many writers and critics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using Renaissance historiography as a model, produced cultural, art, and literary history to promote two often-competing goals: national culture and modernist culture. Reading authors such as Ruskin, Symonds, Arnold, Pater, Fry, Berenson, Hulme, Pound, and Saintsbury alongside relevant archival and periodical literature, Hinojosa reveals the structures of modernist historiography, high and low culture, and historical periodization. This book should interest literary and art historians in modernist, Victorian, Shakespeare, and Renaissance studies, as well as scholars of cultural studies and cultural history. Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Part I: Classical Cultural History-Writing in England......Page 12 1 Historical and Contemporary Contexts......Page 14 2 The Emergence of the Renaissance Concept in Europe: The Fifteenth through the Mid-Nineteenth Century......Page 40 3 Classical Cultural History and the Periodization of the Renaissance: Ruskin and Burckhardt......Page 56 4 Renaissancism in England: Arnold, Symonds, Pater......Page 74 Part II: Renaissance Old Masters and Modernist Art History-Writing......Page 94 5 The Connoisseur and the Spiritual History of Art: Morelli and Berenson......Page 100 6 The Modernist Rejection of the Renaissance: Fry, Bell, Hulme......Page 124 Part III: Shakespeare and National Cultural History-Writing......Page 150 7 National Cultural History in Public Spaces: The Theater, the Press, the Great War......Page 154 8 The Writing of English Literary History......Page 190 Part IV: The Modern Artist......Page 206 9 Typology and the Modern Artist: Vasari, Burckhardt, Pound......Page 208 Notes......Page 230 Works Cited......Page 240 C......Page 254 L......Page 255 R......Page 256 W......Page 257 Contextualising the emergence of literary and aesthetic modernism and cultural nationalism within the popularity of the Renaissance, this volume offers new insights into high and low culture, as well as historical periodization.