Malory's 'Morte Darthur' is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieu: textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates on the influential 'Companion' of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the text and the author. The essays it contains provide a synthetic overview of, and fresh perspectives on, the key questions about and contexts connected with the 'Morte'.
Author(s): Megan G. Leitch, Cory James Rushton (eds.)
Series: Arthurian Studies, 87
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 344
City: Cambridge
List of Illustrations vii
List of Contributors ix
List of Abbreviations x
List of Editions xi
Introduction / Megan G. Leitch and Cory James Rushton 1
A Note on Malory’s Text 11
I. The 'Morte Darthur': Text(s) and Contexts
1. Malory in Historical Context / Catherine Nall 15
2. Malory and His Sources / Ralph Norris 32
3. Writing the 'Morte Darthur': Author, Manuscript and Modern Editions / Thomas H. Crofts and K. S. Whetter 53
4. Malory in Literary Context / Megan G. Leitch 79
5. Malory in Print / Siân Echard 96
II. Approaches to Malory
6. Malory and Form / Cory James Rushton 125
7. Malory and Character / Dorsey Armstrong 144
8. Malory and Gender / Amy S. Kaufman 164
9. Malory and Emotion / Andrew Lynch 177
10. Secular Malory / Lisa Robeson 191
11. Spiritual Malory / Raluca L. Radulescu 211
12. Malory and the Wider World / Meg Roland 227
III. Malory’s Afterlives
13. Malory in Wartime Britain / Rob Gossedge 253
14. Malory in Japan / Masako Takagi 271
15. Malory in America / Daniel Helbert 296
Select Bibliography 317
Index 321
