The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 12 January 2026
- 19 February 2026
- ISBN:
- 9781009031684
- 9781316516010
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 1.188kg, 724 Pages
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- Subjects:
- Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
- Collection:
- Cambridge Histories - Literature
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- Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
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Volume 2
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The second volume of The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture charts the growth and spread of Arthurian matter outwards from Britain into Europe, and then into the globalising world of the 1500s and beyond, up to the present day. In the opening chapters, Welsh and continental engagements with and adaptations of Arthuriana are foregrounded, alongside its permutations throughout the British early modern, Romantic, and Victorian eras. Essays then explore how the legend has gained new resonances and found new means of expression in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, through media as diverse as cinema, television, cartoons, games, and tourist packages. Chapters reveal how Arthurian matter remains relevant to issues such as race, gender, the emotions, and childhood, and how it has come to suffuse popular and literary culture on a global scale, in Japan, Australia, Latin America, and Africa.
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‘By taking the international aspects of Arthur’s story not as context or periphery, but as the heart of Arthurian ism, The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture joins landmark books in medieval studies such as David Wallace’s two-volume Europe: A literary history, 1348–1418 (2016), which focus on the movement and regeneration of such ideas and stories across the continent and beyond. Malory’s presentation of Arthur as English is a very particular take on a set of tales that, by the time he started turning them into a national story, had multiplied all over Europe. It turns out that it is not only Englishmen who are fascinated by these stories of internecine strife, tantalizingly brief (but achingly beautiful) glory and thwarted possibility.’
Marion Turner Source: Times Literary Supplement
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