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Return of King Arthur British and American Arthurian Literature Since 1800

Return of King Arthur British and American Arthurian Literature Since 1800

Taylor, Beverly
Brewer, Elisabeth

Hardcover

Series: Arthurian Studies, Book 9

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0859911365
ISBN13: 9780859911368
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Sep 8 1983
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.59
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. Tennyson was widely criticised for his choice of a medieval topic; yet The Idylls of the Kingwere accepted as the national epic, and a flood of lesser works was inspired by them, on both sides of the Atlantic. Elisabeth Brewer and Beverly Taylor survey the course of Arthurian literature from 1800 to the presentday, and give an account of all the major English and American contributions. Some of the works are well-known, but there are also a host of names which will be new to most readers, and some surprises, such as J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur, rightly ignored as a text, but a piece oftheatrical history, for Sir Henry Irving played King Arthur, Ellen Terry was Guinevere, Arthur Sullivan wrote the music, and Burne-Jones designed the sets.

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