Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. Delivers some fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
The influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter and time-span of articles here. Topics range from early Celtic sources and analogues of Arthurian plots to popular interest in King Arthur in sixteenth-century London, from the thirteenth-century French prose
Mort Artu to Tennyson’s
Idylls of the King. It includes discussion of shapeshifters and loathly ladies, attitudes to treason, royal deaths and funerals in the fifteenth century and the nineteenth, late medieval Scottish politics and early modern chivalry.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English, University of Durhaml; Professor David F. Johnson teaches in the English Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee.
Contributors: Aisling Byrne, Emma Campbell, P.J.C. Field, Kenneth Hodges, Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch, Sue Niebrzydowski, Karen Robinson.
The influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter and time-span of articles here. Topics range from early Celtic sources and analogues of Arthurian plots to popular interest in King Arthur in sixteenth-century London, from the thirteenth-century French prose
Mort Artu to Tennyson’s
Idylls of the King. It includes discussion of shapeshifters and loathly ladies, attitudes to treason, royal deaths and funerals in the fifteenth century and the nineteenth, late medieval Scottish politics and early modern chivalry.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English, University of Durhaml; Professor David F. Johnson teaches in the English Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee.
Contributors: Aisling Byrne, Emma Campbell, P.J.C. Field, Kenneth Hodges, Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch, Sue Niebrzydowski, Karen Robinson.
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Table of Content
General Editors’ Foreword – Elizabeth Archibald and David F. JohnsonCommemoration in
La Mort le roi Artu – Emma Campbell
‘…’if indeed I go”: Arthur’s Uncertain End in Malory and Tennyson – Andrew Lynch
The Intruder at the Feast: Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Insular Romance – Aisling Byrne
What Women Really Want: The Genesis of Chaucer’s
Wife of Bath’s Tale – Peter J.C. Field
Monstrous Appetite and Belly-Laughs: A Reconsideration of the Humour in
The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell – Paul Frazer, Reviews Editor
Speaking [of] Treason in Malory’s
Morte Darthur – Megan G. Leitch
Lancelot of the Laik: A Scottish Mirror for Princes – Karen Robinson
Prince Arthur’s Archers: Innovative Nostalgia in Early Modern Popular Chivalry – Kenneth Hodges
About the author
MEGAN G. LEITCH is is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, Wales.Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 212 ● ISBN 9781846159145 ● File size 2.5 MB ● Editor Elizabeth Archibald & David F. Johnson ● Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd ● City Woodbridge ● Country GB ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8379846 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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