The revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. Tennyson was widely criticised for his choice of a medieval topic; yet The Idylls of the Kingwere accepted as the national epic, and a flood of lesser works was inspired by them, on both sides of the Atlantic. Elisabeth Brewer and Beverly Taylor survey the course of Arthurian literature from 1800 to the present day, and give an account of all the major English and American contributions. Some of the works are well-known, but there are also a host of names...
The revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. Tennyson w...
Here is a fairy tale for the Child in all of us, full of elements that fills us with wonder as a child and keep us young. No matter how many wrinkles you find looking into our mirrors in the morning. Within these pages we gaze with awe at majestic dragons, their adventures as you never experience before. Listen to wondrous tales, feel the chilled apprehension of a foxhole in a muddy battlefield facing an unknown enemy. Don
Here is a fairy tale for the Child in all of us, full of elements that fills us with wonder as a child and keep us young. No matter how many wrinkles ...
The contributors to this volume represent acknowledged experts in the field as well as a number of promising young scholars. They provide a thorough examination of how Romantic authors grappled with the problem of describing the connections between consciousness, unconsciousness, and language in their endeavor to capture this interplay in their art. As this collection bears witness, the Romantics sought to discard old ideas about language and literature and to mold new forms in their search to recover, in both literature and life, the sense of human possiblity. The essays, while strikingly...
The contributors to this volume represent acknowledged experts in the field as well as a number of promising young scholars. They provide a thoroug...
