Arthurian Literature XXVII

Elizabeth Archibald (Curatore)

David F Johnson (Curatore)

Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2010

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.

• Curatore: Elizabeth Archibald, David F Johnson
• Editore: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Collana: Arthurian Literature
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 212 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 268 gr.
• EAN: 9781843842583

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