Reinventing King Arthur
Subtitle: the Arthurian legends in Victorian culture
By: Inga Bryden.
Series: The nineteenth century series; Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Arthurian romances -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Medievalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Britons -- Historiography.; Middle Ages in literature.; Great Britain -- History -- To 1066 -- Historiography.
Description: "In her systematic reassessment of the remaking of the Arthurian past in nineteenth-century British fiction and non-fiction, Inga Bryden examines the Victorian Arthurian revival as a cultural phenomenon, offering insights into the relationship between social, cultural, religious, and ethnographic debates of the period and a wide range of texts. Throughout, she adopts an intertextual and historical perspective, informed by poststructuralist thinking, to reveal nineteenth-century attitudes towards the past.".

"Inga Bryden engages not only with well-known Arthurian texts by Tennyson, Swinburne, Morris and Rossetti, but with lesser-known works by Bulwer-Lytton, Robert Stephen Hawker, Sebastian Evans, Dinah Maria Mulock, Christiana Douglas and Joseph Shorthouse."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-163) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nineteenth-century Arthurians and the mythical inheritance; title: Historians and historicism; title: Ethnology and the search for origins; title: The Holy Grail; title: Victorian heroism and the king remodelled; title: Arthurian lovers : psychology, purity and adultery; title: Arthur's death.