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