A Companion to Arthurian Literature

This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian literature and explores why it is still integral to contemporary culture. Offers a comprehensive survey from the earliest to the most recent works Features an impressive range of well-known international contributors Examines contemporary additions to the Arthurian canon, including film and computer games Underscores an understanding of Arthurian literature as fundamental to western literary tradition

This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon ofArthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to thecontemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronicmedia. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions toLiterature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a fundamentalunderstanding of Arthurian literature and explores why it is stillintegral to contemporary culture.* Offers a comprehensive survey from the earliest to the mostrecent works* Features an impressive range of well-known internationalcontributors* Examines contemporary additions to the Arthurian canonincluding film and computer games* Underscores an understanding of Arthurian literature asfundamental to western literary tradition

List of Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors ixIntroduction: Theories and Debates 1Helen FultonPart I The Arthur of History 131 The End of Roman Britain and the Coming of the Saxons: An Archaeological Context for Arthur? 15Alan Lane2 Early Latin Sources: Fragments of a Pseudo-Historical Arthur 30N. J. Higham3 History and Myth: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae 44Helen Fulton4 The Chronicle Tradition 58Lister M. MathesonPart II Celtic Origins of the Arthurian Legend 715 The Historical Context: Wales and England 800-1200 73Karen Jankulak and Jonathan M. Wooding6 Arthur and Merlin in Early Welsh Literature: Fantasy and Magic Naturalism 84Helen Fulton7 The Arthurian Legend in Scotland and Cornwall 102Juliette Wood8 Arthur and the Irish 117Joseph Falaky Nagy9 Migrating Narratives: Peredur, Owain, and Geraint 128Ceridwen Lloyd-MorganPart III Continental Arthurian Traditions 14310 The "Matter of Britain" on the Continent and the Legend of Tristan and Iseult in France, Italy, and Spain 145Joan Tasker Grimbert11 Chrétien de Troyes and the Invention of Arthurian Courtly Fiction 160Roberta L. Krueger12 The Allure of Otherworlds: The Arthurian Romances in Germany 175Will Hasty13 Scandinavian Versions of Arthurian Romance 189Geraldine Barnes14 The Grail and French Arthurian Romance 202Edward Donald KennedyPart IV Arthur in Medieval English Literature 21915 The English Brut Tradition 221Julia Marvin16 Arthurian Romance in English Popular Tradition: Sir Percyvell of Gales, Sir Cleges, and Sir Launfal 235Ad Putter17 English Chivalry and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 252Carolyne Larrington18 Sir Gawain in Middle English Romance 265Roger Dalrymple19 The Medieval English Tristan 278Tony DavenportPart V From Medieval to Medievalism 29520 Malory's Morte Darthur and History 297Andrew Lynch21 Malory's Lancelot and Guenevere 312Elizabeth Archibald22 Malory and the Quest for the Holy Grail 326Raluca L. Radulescu23 The Arthurian Legend in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 340Alan Lupack24 Scholarship and Popular Culture in the Nineteenth Century 355David Matthews25 Arthur in Victorian Poetry 368Inga Bryden26 King Arthur in Art 381Jeanne Fox-FriedmanPart VI Arthur in the Modern Age 40127 A Postmodern Subject in Camelot: Mark Twain's (Re)Vision of Malory's Morte Darthur in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 403Robert Paul Lamb28 T. H. White's The Once and Future King 420Andrew Hadfield29 Modernist Arthur: The Welsh Revival 434Geraint Evans30 Historical Fiction and the Post-Imperial Arthur 449Tom Shippey31 Feminism and the Fantasy Tradition: The Mists of Avalon 463Jan ShawPart VII Arthur on Film 47932 Remediating Arthur 481Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman33 Arthur's American Round Table: The Hollywood Tradition 496Susan Aronstein34 The Art of Arthurian Cinema 511Lesley Coote35 Digital Divagations in a Hyperreal Camelot: Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur 525Nickolas HaydockIndex 543