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Charting the global spread of Arthuriana up to the present day, the second volume of this history foregrounds non-English engagements with the legend and explores how it has found new expression across diverse media, speaking to issues of race and gender and gaining popularity and relevance far beyond Europe.
List of contents
Part I. Post-Medieval Arthurs in Literature and Culture: 1. Welsh-language Arthurian writing from the post-medieval period Jerry Hunter; 2. Arthur in England and Scotland, 1500-1700 Mary Bateman; 3. Arthur in France, Spain and Italy, 1550-1800 Christine Ferlampin-Acher; 4. Arthur in Germanic languages, literatures and cultures, 1550-1800 Christoph Fasbender; 5. Arthur in English-language literature in England and Scotland, 1700-1830 Amy Louise Blaney; 6. Arthur in continental Europe, 1800-1920 Carol Tully and Anne Berthelot; 7. Tennyson's Idylls of the King Katie Garner; 8. Arthur in the English language in Britain and Ireland, 1830-1920 David Matthews; 9. Arthur in continental European literature and culture, 1920 to the Present Justine Breton; 10. Arthur in English and Irish literature, 1920 to the present Renée Ward; 11. Arthur in North American literature and culture to c. 1900 Ann Howey; 12. Arthur in North American literature and culture, from 1900 to the present Leah Haught; 13. Arthurian legends in Japanese pop culture Makiko Komiya; 14. Arthur in Africa Molly Brown and Wajih Ayed; 15. Arthur in Latin America Juan Miguel Zarandona; 16. Arthurianism in Australia Louise D'Arcens and Melanie Duckworth; Part II. Arthur off the Page: 17. Arthurian art, illustration and material culture, 1500-1800 Peter N. Lindfield; 18. The revival of Arthurian legend in art, 1800-1920 Mariam Hale; 19. Arthurian illustration after 1920 in England and America Alan Lupack; 20. Arthur in Anglophone cinema and television Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman; 21. Arthur in non-Anglophone cinema and television Louise D'Arcens; 22. Arthur in graphic novels and gaming Cory James Rushton; Part III. Arthurian Approaches: 23. The evolution of modern Arthurian scholarship in Old French and middle high German Keith Busby; 24. Arthurian places: tradition, landscape, and heritage tourism Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Susan Aronstein; 25. Arthurian childhoods and Anglophone Arthurian children's literature Catherine Batt; 26. Arthuriana and race Helen Young and Matthew X. Vernon; 27. Arthur the Warrior from medieval to modern Randy P. Schiff; 28. Gender and Arthurian romance Corinne Saunders; 29. Arthurian emotions Sif Rikhardsdottir; 30. Arthurian romance in the global Middle Ages Meg Roland.
About the author
Raluca L. Radulescu is President of the International Arthurian Society (2024–7) and former editor of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society (2011–17). Her publications include two monographs, The Gentry Context for Malory's Morte Darthur (2003) and Romance and its Contexts in Late Medieval England: Politics, Piety and Penitence (2013), and eleven co-edited collections of essays and journal issues on the history of emotions, manuscript miscellanies, the Brut chronicles, genealogy and heraldry, and medieval popular romance.Andrew Lynch is former President of the International Arthurian Society. His publications include Malory's Book of Arms (1997) and many edited volumes, essays, and chapters emphasising themes of violence, education, and emotional development in medieval and medievalist Arthurian literature from Britain, the USA, and Australia.
Summary
Charting the global spread of Arthuriana up to the present day, the second volume of this history foregrounds non-English engagements with the legend and explores how it has found new expression across diverse media, speaking to issues of race and gender and gaining popularity and relevance far beyond Europe.
