Companion to Arthurian Literature

Helen Fulton is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. She has published extensively on medieval Welsh and English literatures and has related interests in language and critical theory, particularly narrative and discourse. Other books which she has edited include Medieval Celtic Literature and Society (2005) and Urban Culture in Medieval Wales (2011).

• 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

"Even so, A Companion to Arthurian Literature is without a doubt a very useful collection of essays with up-to-date guides for reading and a bibliography that students and non-specialists will find very handy." (Besprechungen, 1 January 2011) "This is a volume which will be of particular use to students and scholars of English-though it will be equally useful, no doubt, to readers from other traditions who need a quick, but scholarly and exhilarating, introduction largely to the English-language Arthur." (Arthuriana, 21 January 2011)"A must for anyone interested in the many aspects of the Arthurian legend, the book includes abundant references (including to primary sources) that will serve both those approaching this material for the first time and those pursuing complete knowledge of the subject." (CHOICE, 2009)"If the coverage is impressive, it is matched by the content.... Any library that covers English literature and popular culture will find this a very worthwhile and popular acquisition for a range of student, academic and other interested readers." (Languages and Literature, Autumn 2009)