The essays in this latest volume have a particularly strong focus on English material; they include explorations of Malory's presentation of Sir Dinadan, the connections between ballads and popular romance, and, moving beyond themedieval period, Thomas Love Peacock's 'The Misfortunes of Elphin'. They are complemented by articles on French sources ('L'Atre perilleux', the 'Queste del Saint Graal', and the 'Perlesvaus'), and with an overview of the idea of cowardice and Arthurian narrative.
Author(s): Keith Busby, Roger Dalrymple (eds.)
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 188
City: Cambridge
General Editor’s Foreword vii
I. Beyond Shame: Chivalric Cowardice and Arthurian Narrative / Andrew Lynch 1
II. Malory’s Forty Knights / P. J. C. Field 18
III. Fooling with Language: Sir Dinadan in Malory’s 'Morte Darthur' / Joyce Coleman 30
IV. William Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde and the Editing of Malory’s 'Morte Darthur' / D. Thomas Hanks Jr. 46
V. Ballad and Popular Romance in the Percy Folio / Raluca L. Radulescu 68
VI. Local Hero: Gawain and the Politics of Arthurianism / Margaret Robson 81
VII. Promise-postponement Device in 'The Awntyrs off Arthure': a Possible Narrative Model / Martin Connolly 95
VIII. 'L’Atre perilleux' and the Erasure of Identity / Norris J. Lacy 109
IX. The Theme of the Handsome Coward in the Post-Vulgate 'Queste del Saint Graal' / Fanni Bogdanow 117
X. A Time of Gifts? Jean de Nesle, William A. Nitze and the 'Perlesvaus' / Tony Grand 130
XI. Thomas Love Peacock’s 'The Misfortunes of Elphin' and the Romantic Arthur / Robert Gossedge 157
