Arthurian Literature - Course Bibliography, Spring 2015-16
General
J. Stevens, Medieval Romance, 1973
Roger Middleton, (ed.) Arthurian Romance, (Nottingham, 1991)
E.D. Kennedy (ed.) King Arthur: A Casebook, 1996
W.R.J. Barron, English Medieval Romance, 1987
N.J. Lacy (ed.), The Arthurian Handbook, 1988
N.J. Lacy, The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, 1991
R.S. Loomis (ed.), Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, 1959
R.S. Loomis, The Development of Arthurian Romance, 1970
S. Knight, Arthurian Literature and Society, 1983
D.D.R. Owen, Arthurian Romance
R. Morris, The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature, 1982
Friedrich Wolfzettel, (ed.) Arthurian Romance and Gender: Conference Proceedings (Amsterdam, 1995)
Thelma Fenster (ed.) Arthurian Women: a casebook (Garland, 1996)
K. Varty (ed.) An Arthurian Tapestry, 1981
M. Wynne-Davies, Women and Arthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword, 1996
P.V. Davis & A.J. Kennedy (ed.), Rewards and Punishments in the Arthurian Romances, 1987
Alison Adams (ed.) The Changing Face of Arthurian Romance (Brewer, 1986)
V. Guerin, The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy, 1995
Norris J. Lacy ed. A History of Arthurian Scholarship (Brewer, 2006)
Beate Schmolke-Hasselman, The Evolution of Arthurian Romance (CUP, 2006)
Lori Walters ed. Launcelot and Guinevere: A Casebook (Routledge, 2002)
Alan Lupack, The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend (OUP, 2005)
Philip C. Boardman & D.P. Nastali eds. The Arthurian Annals: The Tradition in English from 1250-2000 2
vols (OUP, 2004)
M. Victoria Guerin, The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy
(Stanford Univ. Press, 1995)
W.R.J. Barron (ed.) The Arthur of the English: the Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature
(Univ. of Wales Press, 2001)
Christopher Baswell & William Sharpe (eds.) The Passing of Arthur (Garland, 1988)
M.B. Shichtman & J.P. Carley (eds.), Culture and the King. The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend,
1994
Richard Barber, King Arthur in Legend and History (London, 1973)
Richard Barber, The Knight and Chivalry (Longmans, 1970)
Richard Barber & Juliet Barker, Tournaments: jousts, chivalry and pageants in the Middle Ages (Boydell,
1989)
Sir Thomas Malory
J. Mann, The Narrative of Distance in Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, 1991
M.J. Parins (ed.), Malory, the Critical Heritage, 1988
T. Takamiya & D. Brewer (eds.) Aspects of Malory, 1981
L.D. Benson, Malory’s Morte Darthure, 1976
E. Archibald & A.S.G. Edwards (eds.) A Companion to Malory, 1996
H. Lynch, Malory’s Book of Arms, 1997
P.J.C. Field, The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory, 1993
Kennedy, Knighthood in the Morte Arthur,
Lafarge, Sir Thomas Malory, 1995
M. Whitaker, Arthur’s Kingdom of Adventure: the World of Malory’s Morte Arthur, 1984
Hyonjin Kim ed. The Knight without a Sword: A Social Landscape of Malorian Chivalry (Brewer, 2000)
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R. Radulescu, The Gentry Context for Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (Brewer, 2003)
Thomas H Crofts, Malory’s Contemporary Audience: the social reading of Romance in Late Medieval
England (Brewer, 2006)
Catherine Batt, Malory’s Morte d’Arthur: Remaking Arthurian Tradition (Palgrave, 2001)
Dorsey Armstrong, Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (Univ. Press of
Florida, 2003)
Kenneth Hodges, Forging Chivalric Communities in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (Palgrave, 2005)
Kevin Whetter & Raluca Radulescu eds. Re-Viewing Le Morte d’Arthur: Texts and Contexts, Characters and
Themes (Brewer, 2005)
Watson & Fries, The Figure of Merlin in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1989
Victorian Arthurian Revival - General
D.N. Mancoff, The Arthurian Revival in Victorian Art, 1990
E.D. Kennedy (ed.), King Arthur: a Casebook, 1966
C.Baswell & W. Sharpe (eds.), The Passing of Arthur: new essays in Arthurian tradition, 1988
B. Taylor & E. Brewer, The Return of King Arthur: British and American Arthurian Literature since 1800,
1983
G. Ashe, King Arthur: the dream of a Golden Age, 1990
A. Chandler, A Dream of Order: the Medieval Ideal in 19th century English Literature, 1971
M. Girouard, The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman, 1981
Watson & Fries, The Figure of Merlin in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1989
A. Hook, Arthurian Literature in Context III: 1865-1900, 1983
J. Simons, From Medieval to Medievalism, 1992
H.L. Sussman, Victorian masculinities: manhood and masculine poetics in early Victorian literature and art,
1995
Inga Bryden, Reinventing King Arthur: The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture (Ashgate, 2005)
Maureen Fries, Bonnie Wheeler & F. Tolhurst eds. On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen
Fries (Scriptorium)
Jennifer A Palmgren, Beyond Arthurian Romances and Gothic Thrillers: the Reaches of Victorian
Medievalism (Palgrave, 2005)
D.N. Mancoff, ‘To Take Excalibur. King Arthur and the Constructions of Victorian Manhood’, in Kennedy,
King Arthur (1996)
D.N. Mancoff, ‘Pure Hearts and Clean Hands. The Victorians and the Grail’, in Mahoney, The Grail (2000)
Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King
C.Y. Lang, Tennyson’s Arthurian Psycho-Drama, 1983
J.R. Reed, Perception and Design in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, 1969
Roger Simpson, Camelot Regained: The Arthurian Revival and Tennyson 1800-1849 (Brewer, 1990)
A.D. Culler, The Poetry of Tennyson, 1977
P. Eggers, King Arthur’s Laureate, 1971
L.K. Hughes, Tennyson’s Urban Arthurians: Victorian audiences and the ‘City built to Music’,
Laura C. Lambdin & Robert T Lambdin, Camelot in the Nineteenth Century: Arthurian Character in the
Poems of Tennyson, Arnold, Morris & Swinburne (1999)
E.L. Gilbert, ‘The Female King. Tennyson’s Arthurian Apocalypse’, in Kennedy, King Arthur (1996)
L.K. Hughes, ‘Scandals of Faith and Gender in Tennyson’s Grail Poems’, in Mahoney, The Grail (2000)
J. Rosenberg, ‘Tennyson and the Passing of Arthur’, in Baswell & Sharpe, Passing of Arthur (1988)
Watson & Fries, The Figure of Merlin in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1989
The Pre-Raphaelites – William Morris, Algernon Swinburne
Arthurian Poets: Matthew Arnold and William Morris, ed. J.P. Carley, 1990
J. Banham & J. Harris, William Morris and the Middle Ages, 1984
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J.A. Konarski, ‘A Progress towards Redemption: Guinevere in William Morris’s The defence of Guinevere
and King Arthur’s Tomb’, in Arthurian Yearbook, 3, 1993, 39-76.
I. Bradley, William Morris and his World, 1978
M. Whitaker, The Legends of King Arthur in Art, 1990
J. Dixon Hunt, The Pre-Raphaelite Imagination 1848-1900, 1968
T. Hilton, The Pre-Raphaelites, 1993
C. Wood, The Pre-Raphaelites, 1994
K. Hodder, ‘The Lady of Shalott in Art and Literature’, in S. Mendus & J. Rendall (eds.), Sexuality and
Subordination, 1989
J. Marsh, Pre-Raphaelite Women,
M. Pointon, The Pre-Raphaelites Re-Viewed, 1989
Laura C. Lambdin & Robert T Lambdin, Camelot in the Nineteenth Century: Arthurian Character in the
Poems of Tennyson, Arnold, Morris & Swinburne (1999)
Algernon Swinburne: Arthurian Poets Series (Boydell, 1990)
Matthew Arnold & William Morris: Arthurian Poets Series (Boydell, 1995)
Christine Poulson, Morris, Burne-Jones and the Quest for the Holy Grail (William Morris Society, 2001)
C.Silver, ‘Victorian Spellbinders: Arthurian Women and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle’, in Baswell & Sharpe,
The Passing of Arthur (1988)
C.Silver, ‘In Defence of Guinevere’, in Fenster, Arthurian Women (1996)
B.F. Leavy, ‘Iseult of Brittany. A New Interpretation of Matthew Arnold’s Tristan and Iseult’, in Fenster,
Arthurian Women (1996)
Modern Arthurian Literature – General
R.H. Thompson, The Return from Avakon: a study of Arthurian legend in modern fiction, 1985
T.E. Apter, Fantasy Literature, 1992
E.Birge Vitz, Medieval Narratives and Modern Narratology: Subjects and Objects of Desire,
1992
M.S. Brownlee, K. Brownlee & S.G. Nichols (eds.) The New Medievalism, 1991
R.M. Jackson, Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion, 1981
R.C. Schlobin, The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art, 1982
N.C. Starr, King Arthur Today,
A. Roberts, Silk and Potatoes. Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy, 1998
John B. Marino, The Grail Legend in Modern Literature (Brewer, 2004)
Debra N. Mancoff, King Arthur’s Modern Return (Garland, 1998)
E.Brewer, ‘The Figure of Guenevere in Modern Drama and Fiction’, in Fenster, Arthurian Women (1996) #
Mark Twain
F.Anderson (ed.) Mark Twain: the Critical Heritage, 1971
E.Emerson, The Authentic Mark Twain: A Literary Biography of Samuel L. Clemens, 1984
P.S. Foner, Mark Twain as Social Critic, 1958
R. Regan, Unpromising Heroes: Mark Twain and his Characters, 1966
D.E.E. Sloane, Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian, 1979
D. Welland, Mark Twain in England, 1978
D.R. Sewell, ‘Hank Morgan and the Colonization of Utopia’, in E.J. Sundquist (ed.) Mark Twain. A
Collection of Critical Essays, 1994
J. Goodman, The Legend of King Arthur in British and American Literature, 1988
John Masefield
David Llewellyn Dodds, ed., Arthurian Poets: John Masefield (Brewer, 1994)
Peter Noble, ‘Arthur, Anti-Fascist or Pirate-King?’, Quondam et Futurus 3.3 (1993)
Constance Babington Smith, John Masefield: A Life (OUP, 1978)
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T.H. White
F. Gallix, ‘T.H. White and the Legend of King Arthur’, in King Arthur: A Casebook, 1996
R.H. Thompson, ‘Conceptions of King Arthur in the Twentieth Century’, in King Arthur: A
Casebook
R.H. Thompson, The Return from Avalon: a study of Arthurian legend in modern fiction, 1985
E. Brewer, T.H. White’s Once and Future King, 1993
M. Kellman, T.H. White and the Matter of Britain: A Literary Overview, 1988
Watson & Fries, The Figure of Merlin in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1989
Mary Stewart
Fries, Maureen. ‘The Rationalization of the Arthurian ‘Matter’ in T.H.White and Mary Stewart’,
Philological Quarterly 56 (1977), 258–65.
Harold J. Herman, ‘The Women in Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy’, Interpretations 15.2 (1984),
101-114
Ann F. Howey, Rewriting the Women of Camelot: Arthurian Popular Fiction and Feminism
(Greenwood Press, 2001)
Jeanie Watson, ‘Mary Stewart’s Merlin: Word of Power’, Arthurian Interpretations 1.2 (1987),
70-83 (re-printed in Watson & Fries, The Figure of Merlin in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1989)
Arthurian Film
Susan Aronstein, Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia (Palgrave,
2005)
M. Burde, ‘Monty Python’s Medieval Masterpiece’ Arthurian Yearbook III, 1993, 3-20
J. Hawthorne, From Malory to Motion Pictures, 1985
E. Kennedy, ‘The World of King Arthur according to John Boorman’, in American Film, 6 Mar,
1981
Other writers, poets and artists who treat Arthurian themes in 20th century
E.A. Robinson, Merlin, 1917, Lancelot, 1920, Tristram, 1927 (American poet)
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922
Charles Williams, Taliessin Through Logres, 1938 and The Region of the Summer Stars 1944
John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, 1958
Rosemary Sutcliffe, The Lantern Bearers, 1959, Sword at Sunset, 1963
Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising series, 1965-77
John Heath-Stubbs, Artorius, 1973 (epic poem)
Thomas Berger, Arthur Rex, 1978
Gillian Bradshaw, Hawk in May, Winter Shadow, Kingdom of Summer, 1980-2
Sharan Newman, Guinevere, The Chessboard Queen, Guinevere Evermore, 1981-5
David Lodge, Small World, 1984 (a Grail novel)
Stephen Lawhead, The Pendragon cycle, 1987-9
Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron, 1989
Fay Sampson, Daughter of Tintagel, 1992
Bernard Cornwall, The Warlord Chronicles: The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur, 1995, The
Enemy of God, 1997
Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin, 1996
Haydn Middleton, The Mordred cycle, 1995-7
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant, 2015
Arthurian Films
Jean Cocteau, L’Éternel Retour, 1943
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Bruce Baillie, To Parsifal, 1963
Wolfgang Reitheman, The Sword in the Stone, 1963
Joshua Logan, Camelot, 1967
Robert Bresson, Lancelot du Lac, 1974
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975
Eric Rohmer, Perceval le Gallois, 1978
John Boorman, Excalibur, 1981
George A. Romero, Knightriders, 1981
Jerry Zucker, First Knight, 1995
Antoine Fuqua, King Arthur, 2004
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