Maike Oergel 
The Return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen [PDF ebook] 
National Myth in Nineteenth-Century English and German Literature

Frontmatter — Introduction: National Myth – Mythic or National — CHAPTER 1: The Investment of Literature with Mythic Significance — CHAPTER 2: The Investment of History with Mythic Significance — CHAPTER 3: The Search for the Legitimising Mythic Matter of the Moderns: From Homer’s Heroes to Gothic Knights and Back — CHAPTER 4: The National Dimension of the New Mythic Materials: “Volkspoesie”, Ballad Revival and the Germanic Nations’ Mission in History — CHAPTER 5: The Representative National Individual: The Emergence of Siegfried and King Arthur — CHAPTER 6: The Results: Richard Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen and Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King as Modern National Myths — CONCLUSION: Arthur, Siegfried and the Germanic – A Qualification of the Difference between the German and the Western Tradition — Bibliography — Index — Backmatter