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The Social and Literary Contexts of Malory's Morte Darthur

The Social and Literary Contexts of Malory's Morte Darthur

Brogdon, Jessica G.
Lynch, Andrew
Hanks Jr, D. Thomas

Hardcover

Series: Arthurian Studies, Book 42

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0859915948
ISBN13: 9780859915946
Publisher: D S Brewer
Published: Nov 4 2000
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Malory's world explored, from the battle of Towton to the grete bokes of chivalric material composd for aristocratic families.

Many aspects of Malory's Morte Darthur reflect contemporary literary and social issues, and it is this topic which forms the focus for the eight essays in the volume, all by leading Malory scholars. Terence McCarthy suggests that the Morte was a book that came at the wrong time, and which we have admired for the wrong reasons. Andrew Lynch and D. Thomas Hanks Jr argue that Malory questions his culture's ideology of arms; Karen Cherewatuk andKevin Grimm discuss the manuscript and printed contexts of the Morte. Robert Kelly examines some of the political elements of the Morte; Ann Elaine Bliss points out the role of processions in Malory's time and in theMorte; and P.J.C. Field compares the Morte's final battle to elements of the Battle of Towton (1461), finding strong similarities between the two.

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