{"product_id":"return-of-king-arthur-british-and-american-arthurian-literature-since-1800-9780859911368","title":"Return of King Arthur British and American Arthurian Literature since 1800","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Idylls of the King\u003c\/i\u003ewere 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 presentday, 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 which will be new to most readers, and some surprises, such as J. Comyns Carr's \u003ci\u003eKing Arthur\u003c\/i\u003e, rightly ignored as a text, but a piece oftheatrical history, for Sir Henry Irving played King Arthur, Ellen Terry was Guinevere, Arthur Sullivan wrote the music, and Burne-Jones designed the sets.\u003cbr\u003e    The Arthurian works of the Pre-Raphaelites are discussed at length, as are the poemsof Edward Arlington Robinson, John Masefield and Charles Williams. Other writers have used the legends as part of a wider cultural consciousness: \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e, David Jones's \u003ci\u003eIn Parenthesis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Anathemata\u003c\/i\u003e, and the echoes ofTristan and Iseult in \u003ci\u003eFinnigan's Wake\u003c\/i\u003e are discussed in this context. Novels on Arthurian themes are given their due place, from the satirical scenes of Thomas Love Peacock's \u003ci\u003eThe Misfortunes of Elphin\u003c\/i\u003e and Mark Twain's \u003ci\u003eA Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court\u003c\/i\u003e to T.H. White's serio-comic \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future King\u003c\/i\u003e and the many recent novelists who have turned away from the chivalric Arthur to depict him as a Dark Age ruler.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Return of King Arthur\u003c\/i\u003eincludes a bibliography of British and American creative writing relating to the Arthurian legends from1800 to the present day.","brand":"Beverly Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280614600955,"sku":"9780859911368","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780859911368.jpg?v=1772483197","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/return-of-king-arthur-british-and-american-arthurian-literature-since-1800-9780859911368","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}