Books in the Arthurian Studies series

An examination of the numerous adaptations of Malory's Morte Darthur for children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.From the time when the writer J.T. Knowles first adapted Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur for a juvenile audience in 1862, there has been a strong connection between children and the Arthurian legend. Between 1862 and 1980, numerous adaptations of the Morte were produced for a young audience in Britain and America. They participated in cultural dialogues relating to the medieval, literary heritage, masculine development, risk, adventure and mental health through their reworking of the narrative. Covering texts by J.T. Knowles, Sidney Lanier, Howard Pyle, T.H. White, Roger Lancelyn Green, Alice Hadfield, John Steinbeck and Susan Cooper, among others, this volume explores how books for children frequently become books about children, and consequently books about the contiguity and separation of the adult and the child. Against the backdrop of Victorian medievalism, imperialism, the rise of child psychology and two world wars, the diverse ways in which Malory's text has been altered with a child reader in mind reveals changing ideas regarding the relevance of King Arthur, and the complex relationship between authors and their imagined juvenile readers. It reveals the profoundly fantasised figures behind literary representations of childhood, and the ways in which Malory's timeless tale, and the figure of King Arthur, have inspiredand shaped these fantasies. Dr ELLY MCCAUSLAND is Senior Lecturer in British and American literature at the University of Oslo.

Complete Malory articles by leading Malory scholar on issues relating to the text and sources of the Morte Darthur.

The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition.

This trilogy establishes a provenance for the Holy Grail and, through the figure of Merlin, links Joseph of Arimathea with mythical British history and with the knightly adventures of Perceval's Grail quest.

Fresh study of the intricate roles played by gender, visibility, and the idea of romance in Malory's Morte.

A new edition of Malory's Morte Darthur based on the Winchester and other source manuscripts.

The first ever translation of the whole of the rich and compelling body of tales contained in Chretien's poem and its four Continuations.

Analysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend.

A comprehensive survey of one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages.

Fully annotated edition, in French, of late 12c Arthurian romance.

First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century.

`No Arthurian critic will be able to ignore this book which gathers together so much diverse material and skilfully brings out unexpected links between versions widely separated in time and country of origin. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW

Essays intended as a companion to a reading of the works of the Gawain poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience

A critical edition of the "Prose Tristanis".

Presents a study of the Arthurian literature period, tracing the dominant forms adopted by the Arthurian revival. This book also presents material that shows it to have been of critical importance in the development of the legend and to have been a powerful early influence on Tennyson, whose role within the Arthurian revival is also assessed.

A critical study of T.H. White's classic Arthurian tetralogy.

Aims at advancing the appreciation of Malory. This title features topics including Malory's sources, both French and English, the scribal and textual tradition of his work, and the question of authorship. It contains essays on Malory's Englishness and his English sources.

Essays examining a variety of aspects of important Arthurian poem.

Examines the legend of Arthur, based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain". This book illustrates how medieval writers retold what they believe to be the story of a real historical figure and how the story of Arthur took shape. It looks at his antecedents, the story of his conception and birth, and his accession.

A bibliography of Arthurian literature to 1978, the result of five years' work by Professor Cedric Pickford and Dr Rex Last of the University of Hull. It consists of an alphabetical author-listing, with key numbers for each item, of critical material recorded in the standard Arthurian bibliographies with indexes by topic, and keyword.

Contains work on the medieval aspects of Arthurian legend, ranging from Rachel Bromwich's essay on the Celtic elements in Arthurian romance and AOH Jarman's study of Arthurian allusions in the "Black Book of Carmarthen" to examinations of the Spanish and French romances of the 15th century.

States that the revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. This book gives an account of the major English and American contributions and includes a bibliography of British and American creative writing relating to the Arthurian legends since 1800.

The setting of medieval Arthurian romance, as typified by Malory's Morte Darthur, plays an important part in the creation of the atmosphere of the stories, and in intensifying the drama of the action. Professor Whitaker looks at the Arthurianworld which Malory inherited form his sources and to which he added his own details, and examines its different aspects: castles and forests, kingdoms and empires, showing how these diverge from reality to meetthe particular requirements of romance, how new political and temporal relationships are set up for the same reason, and how it was shaped by the presence of the Otherworld in the Celtic stories from which many episodes were drawn.

A critical edition of the "Prose Tristan".

Presents essays that are centred on the theme of rewards and punishments in French Arthurian romance and the medieval lyric.

French Tristan poets of the 12th century worked within a self-contained tradition. In the process of retelling the Tristan matter they elaborated a network of connections among the narrative elements of the French Tristan poems. This book traces the poets' conscious thought processes and unconscious associations as they reworked their material.

Investigates the English poet's handling of his main source, Wace's "Roman de Brut", to determine what principles guided the composition of the "English Brut". This book distinguishes between different sorts of variation from the Roman, thereby providing norms against which to gauge the probability of further, secondary sources.