Reinventing King Arthur: The Arthurian Legends in Victorian by Inga Bryden

By Inga Bryden

In her systematic reassessment of the remaking of the Arthurian earlier in nineteenth-century British fiction and non-fiction, Inga Bryden examines the Victorian Arthurian revival as a cultural phenomenon, supplying insights into the connection among social, cultural, non secular, and ethnographic debates of the interval and a variety of texts. all through, she adopts an intertextual and old viewpoint, proficient through poststructuralist pondering, to bare nineteenth-century attitudes in the direction of the previous. beginning with a overview of the historic facts on hand to Victorian writers and an exam of ways historians of the time represented Arthur, the writer connects Victorian debts of Arthur's quest to modern medical and historic searches for origins and data, and to his appropriation by means of competing spiritual events. She indicates how writers explored the dynamics of heroism by means of recruiting Arthur and his knights to outline codes of chivalric provider, and to personify the mental complexities of affection. eventually, the legend of his loss of life and transportation to Avalon is deconstructed and put within the context of cultural attitudes in the direction of commemorating the useless and theological debates concerning the afterlife. Inga Bryden engages not just with recognized Arthurian texts through Tennyson, Swinburne, Morris and Rossetti, yet with lesser-known works via Bulwer-Lytton, Robert Stephen Hawker, Sebastian Evans, Diana Maria Mulock, Christiana Douglas and Joseph Shorthouse.

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