A Companion to Arthurian Literature.

Intro -- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture -- Title page -- Copyright page -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Theories and Debates -- The Question of Historicity -- Chronicle, Romance, Fantasy -- The Politics of Arthur in the Modern World -- Remediations of Arthur -- A Note on Spelling and Translations -- Part I: The Arthur of History -- 1 The End of Roman Britain and the Coming of the Saxons: An Archaeological Context for Arthur? -- Gildas and the History of Britain in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries -- The Archaeology of Britain in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries -- Germanic Settlement -- Towns -- The Celtic West -- Tintagel -- Cadbury Castle -- Dinas Powys -- Western and Northern England -- Conclusion -- 2 Early Latin Sources: Fragments of a Pseudo-Historical Arthur -- The Historia Brittonum -- The Annales Cambriae -- Genealogy -- Hagiographies -- Conclusion -- 3 History and Myth: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae -- The Historia as History -- Manuscripts and Sources -- The Arthurian Section of the Historia -- The Myth of Arthur -- 4 The Chronicle Tradition -- Part II: Celtic Origins of the Arthurian Legend -- 5 The Historical Context: Wales and England 800-1200 -- Britain at the Opening of the Ninth Century -- England and Wales in the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries -- The Coming of the Normans -- "Native" and Norman Cultures -- The Poets and the Princes -- 6 Arthur and Merlin in Early Welsh Literature: Fantasy and Magic Naturalism -- Arthur as Warrior-Hero -- Arthur in Welsh Popular Tradition -- Fantasy and Magic Naturalism -- The Three Merlins -- 7 The Arthurian Legend in Scotland and Cornwall -- Scottish Chronicles and Arthurian Tradition -- Folk Tradition and the Figure of Arthur -- The Arthur of Romance -- Cornwall.

Place Names, Personal Names, and the Oldest Strata of Arthurian Legends -- Conclusion -- 8 Arthur and the Irish -- 9 Migrating Narratives: Peredur, Owain, and Geraint -- The Manuscript History -- Welsh and French Traditions -- Date and Provenance -- Part III: Continental Arthurian Traditions -- 10 The "Matter of Britain" on the Continent and the Legend of Tristan and Iseult in France, Italy, and Spain -- France and Occitania -- Italy -- Spain and Portugal -- 11 Chrétien de Troyes and the Invention of Arthurian Courtly Fiction -- The Author and his Works -- Chrétien and his Sources -- Erec et Enide: The First Arthurian Romance -- Cligès: Carrying Romance from Britain to Byzantium and Beyond -- Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot): The Queen's Lover -- Yvain or the Knight of the Lion: Protecting the Fountain -- Le Conte du Graal: Perceval's Education and the Grail -- Chrétien's Legacy -- 12 The Allure of Otherworlds: The Arthurian Romances in Germany -- 13 Scandinavian Versions of Arthurian Romance -- Trends in Scholarship -- Arthur of the Norse -- Saga and Romance: Form and Ideology -- The Later Middle Ages -- 14 The Grail and French Arthurian Romance -- Chrétien de Troyes and Robert de Boron -- Perlesvaus -- La Queste del Saint Graal and the Vulgate Cycle -- The Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal -- Perceforest -- Conclusion -- Part IV: Arthur in Medieval English Literature -- 15 The English Brut Tradition -- Geoffrey of Monmouth: Enter Brutus -- Wace -- Layamon: A Landmark Account -- The Return to Prose -- Chronicle and Romance -- 16 Arthurian Romance in English Popular Tradition: Sir Percyvell of Gales, Sir Cleges, and Sir Launfal -- Sir Percyvell of Gales -- Sir Cleges -- Sir Launfal -- 17 English Chivalry and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Manuscript and Provenance -- The Plot -- English Chivalry - French Romance - British Otherness.

Critiquing Chivalry -- 18 Sir Gawain in Middle English Romance -- The Heroic Gawain of Chronicle Tradition -- The Fallible Gawain of Chivalric Romance -- The Exemplary Gawain of Popular Romance -- Conclusion -- 19 The Medieval English Tristan -- Part V: From Medieval to Medievalism -- 20 Malory's Morte Darthur and History -- The Identity of Thomas Malory -- Malory and Politics -- The Ethics of Knighthood -- The Morte in its Time -- The "Historical" Arthur and the Nature of the Past -- Nostalgia and Trauma -- 21 Malory's Lancelot and Guenevere -- Lancelot and Guenevere in the English Arthurian Tradition -- "The Olde Love" -- "A Trew Lover" -- "A Good Ende" -- 22 Malory and the Quest for the Holy Grail -- 23 The Arthurian Legend in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries -- The Historicity of Arthur after the Middle Ages -- Scottish Chronicles -- Arthurian Topography -- Arthur on Stage -- Merlin and Prophecy -- Spenser's Faerie Queene and Arthurian Romance and Epic -- Ballads -- Conclusion -- 24 Scholarship and Popular Culture in the Nineteenth Century -- The Antiquarian Rediscovery of Romance -- Arthur in Scholarship, History, and Popular Culture to 1850 -- Arthurian Expansion in the Later Nineteenth Century -- 25 Arthur in Victorian Poetry -- 26 King Arthur in Art -- Medieval Arthurian Imagery and the Church -- Late Medieval Arthurian Art: Images of Magnificence -- Images of Arthur in the Post-Medieval World -- The Pre-Raphaelites and Arthurian Art -- Part VI: Arthur in the Modern Age -- 27 A Postmodern Subject in Camelot: Mark Twain's (Re)Vision of Malory's Morte Darthur in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Mark Twain and American Medievalism -- Twain's Camelot -- Twain, Republicanism, and Contemporary Britain -- First-Person Polyphony: Hank Morgan as Postmodern Subject -- The "Triumph" of Technology.

28 T. H. White's The Once and Future King -- 29 Modernist Arthur: The Welsh Revival -- The Celtic Revival and the Rediscovery of Arthur -- David Jones and Welsh writing in English -- T. Gwynn Jones and Writing in Welsh -- A Post-Colonial Welsh Hero -- 30 Historical Fiction and the Post-Imperial Arthur -- 31 Feminism and the Fantasy Tradition: The Mists of Avalon -- The Fantasy Tradition -- Fantasy and Feminism -- Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Mists of Avalon -- Conclusion -- Part VII: Arthur on Film -- 32 Remediating Arthur -- 33 Arthur's American Round Table: The Hollywood Tradition -- "Is the Grail in New York City?": Class, Civic Virtue, and National Identity -- Bringing Camelot Up-to-Date: Hollywood Yankees in King Arthur's Court -- Defending Arthur: American Chivalric Romance -- Camelot, America, and the New Jerusalem: Arthurian Chronicles -- 34 The Art of Arthurian Cinema -- Lancelot du Lac -- Perceval le Gallois -- Excalibur -- Literature and Culture -- 35 Digital Divagations in a Hyperreal Camelot: Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur -- The Desire for Origins: The Seven Sarmatians -- Seven Samurai Meets Alexander Nevsky -- Romancing Genetics -- Playing (with) the Legend -- Index.

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