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Sovereign Fantasies : Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812292541
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sovereign FantasiesDDC classification:
  • 809/.93351
LOC classification:
  • PR328 -- .I54 2001eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: THE MATTER OF BRITAIN -- 1 Arthurian Imagination and the "Makyng" of History -- 2 Arthurian Futurism and British Destiny -- PART II: ROMANCING THE THRONE -- 3 Disavowing Romance: Colonial Loss and Stories of the Past -- 4 "In Contrayez Straunge": Sovereign Rivals, Fantasies of Gender, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- 5 Dangerous Liaisons: Disloyalty, Adultery, and the Tragedy of Romance -- PART III: INSULAR LOSSES -- 6 Military Intimacies: The Pleasures and Pains of Conquest -- 7 "Necessary" Losses: Royal Death and English Remembrance -- Afterword: Lost Books -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: THE MATTER OF BRITAIN -- 1 Arthurian Imagination and the "Makyng" of History -- 2 Arthurian Futurism and British Destiny -- PART II: ROMANCING THE THRONE -- 3 Disavowing Romance: Colonial Loss and Stories of the Past -- 4 "In Contrayez Straunge": Sovereign Rivals, Fantasies of Gender, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- 5 Dangerous Liaisons: Disloyalty, Adultery, and the Tragedy of Romance -- PART III: INSULAR LOSSES -- 6 Military Intimacies: The Pleasures and Pains of Conquest -- 7 "Necessary" Losses: Royal Death and English Remembrance -- Afterword: Lost Books -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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