Arthurian Literature:

A Selective Bibliography

 Bibliographies

The Arthurian Yearbook. New York: Garland Pub. Inc., 1991.

Bruce, J.  Evolution Of Arthurian Romance, 2nd ed., 2 vol.   Gottingen, 1928; repr.  Gloucester, Mass., 1958 (up to 1922 with supplements to 1927)

Lacy, Norris J. A History of Arthurian Scholarship. Arthurian Studies. Cambridge England ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2006.

---. Medieval Arthurian Literature : A Guide to Recent Research. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities ; Vol. 1955. New York: Garland Pub., 1996.

Parry, J.   A Bibliography of Critical Arthurian Literature for the Years 1922-1929.  New York, 1931 (continued for 1930-1935 by J. Parry and M. Slauch)

-----, et al.  Arthurian Bibliographies in Modern Language Quarterly (annually 1940-62)

Bulletin Bibliographigue de la Societe International Arthurienne (BBSIA). (annual)
(See also PMLA annual bibliographies and Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL.)

The journal Arthuriana The journal Arthuriana (GMU now has a full set as well as on-line access to most volumes) is published by the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.  It maintains a bibliographic website  jointly with the Camelot Project.
 

Collections

The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris J. Lacy, Garland, 1991.  Short articles covering the international scope of the whole legend

 The collection edited by R. S. Loomis, Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages:  A Collaborative History (Oxford, 1959) contains studies relevant to all the major headings of this bibliography;  the bibliographic material in the footnotes is especially useful.   The articles in the two volumes The Arthur of the Welsh : the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature, ed. R. Bromwich (Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 1991) and  The Arthur of the English : the Arthurian legend in Medieval English Life and Literature, ed  W.R.J. Barron (Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 1999) supplement this authoritative older volume.

The Arthurian Studies series published by Garland Press has issued several casebooks, each of which collects major articles on topics central to Arthurian studies. These include: King Arthur: a Casebook (1996); Arthurian Women: a Casebook (1996); and Lancelot and Guinevere: a Casebook (1996). More recent collections include Fulton, Helen, ed., A Companion to Arthurian Literature. Chichester, U.K.; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, and Archibald, Elizabeth, and Ad Putter, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
 

Primary Works: Anthologies

Brengle, Richard L. Arthur, King of Britain: History, Chronicle, Romance & Criticism, with Texts in Modern English, from Gildas to Malory. New York,: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1964.

Wilhelm, James J. The Romance of Arthur : An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities ; Vol. 1267. New, expanded ed. New York: Garland, 1994

 

II. Historical and General Studies

Texts


Gildas. The Ruin of Britain and Other Works, ed. Michael Winterbotton.  Chichester, 1978.

Morris, John (ed. and tr.).  Nennius:  British History and The Welsh Annals.  London:  Phillimore;  Totowa, NJ:  Rowman and Littlefield, 1980.

Scholarship

Alcock, Leslie.  Arthur's Britain.  Harmondsworth, Middlesex:  Penguin, 1971.

-----. "By South Cadbury is that Camelot":  Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1966-70.  London, 1972.

Ashe, Geoffrey.  " A Certain Very Ancient British Book." Speculum 56 (1981):  301-323.

-----.  "The Origins of the Arthurian Legend," Arthuriana 5.3 (1995):  1-24

Barber, Richard.  Arthur of Albion, an Introduction to the Arthurian Literature and Legends of England.  London, 1971.

-----.  The Figure of Arthur.  London, 1972.

Baswell, Christopher, William Sharpe, and Barnard College. The Passing of Arthur : New Essays in Arthurian Tradition. New York: Garland Pub., 1988.

Bloom, Harold, ed. King Arthur. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003.

Braswell, Mary Flowers, and John Bugge. The Arthurian Tradition : Essays in Convergence. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1988.

Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn, and NetLibrary Inc. Shaping Romance Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.

Chadwick, N.K.  Studies in the Early British Church. Cambridge, 1958. (especially pp 37-46 on Nennius)

Chambers, E.K. Arthur of Britain.  London, 1927

Cooney, Helen (ed.). Writings on love in the English Middle Ages. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Ditmas, E.M.R. "The Invention of Tintagel."  BBSIA 23 (1971): 131-136.

Dumville, David N. "Sub-Roman Britain:  History and Legend." History 62 (1977): 173-192.

Evans, John.  "The Arthurian Campaign."  Archaeologica Cantiana (Kent Archeological Society), LXXVIII (1963):  83-95.

Finke, Laurie, and Martin B. Shichtman. King Arthur and the Myth of History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004.

Fletcher, Robert Huntington, and Roger Sherman Loomis. The Arthurian Material in the Chronicles : Especially Those of Great Britain and France. 2d ed. New York: Lenox Hill Pub. & Distr. Co. (Burt Franklin), 1973.

Green, Thomas. "The Historicity and Historicization of Arthur". 1998. <http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/historicity/arthur.htm>

Guendling, John E.  "The Kinging of Arthur, a Medieval Paradigm." Topic IX (Fall, 1969): 30-39.

Guerin, M. Victoria. The Fall of Kings and Princes : Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Gwara, Scott. "A possible Arthurian epitome in a tenth-century manuscript from Cornwall.." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch). 17, 2 (2007): 3.

Higham, N J. King Arthur: Myth-Making and History. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.

Knight, Stephen Thomas. Arthurian Literature and Society. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.

Larrington, Carolyne. King Arthur's Enchantresses : Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition. London ; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006.

Kennedy, Edward Donald, ed. King Arthur: A Casebook. New York: Garland, 1996.

Lacy, Norris and R. Thompson.  The New Arthurian Encyclopedia.  New York:  Garland, 1992.

Loomis, Roger S., ed.  Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1959.

------.  Studies in Medieval literature: a Memorial Collection. New York:  Burt Franklin, 1970.

Lupack, Alan. The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Meuwese, Martine. "Crossing borders: text and image in Arthurian manuscripts.." Arthurian Literature (2007): 157.

Moorman, Charles.  "King Arthur and the English National Character." New York Folklore Quarterly, XXIV (1968): 103-112.

Morris, Rosemary.  The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature.  Cambridge, England:  D. S. Brewer, 1982.

O'Donoghue, Bernard. "The reality of courtly love.." In Cooney, Helen (ed.). Writings on love in the English Middle Ages. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006: 7-24.

Owen D. D. R.  Arthurian Romance: Seven Essays.  New York:  Barnes and Noble, 1973.

Padel, O. J. Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000.

Scattergood, John. "'The unequal scales of love': love and social class in Andreas Capellanus' De amore and some later texts.." In Cooney, Helen (ed.). Writings on love in the English Middle Ages. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; 63-79.

Waite, Arthur Edward. The Holy Grail; the Galahad Quest in Arthurian Literature. New Hyde Park, NY:  University Books, 1961.

Walters, Lori J., ed. Lancelot and Guinevere: A Casebook. New York NY: Garland, 1996.

Wheeler, Bonnie. "Arthurian Masculinities." Arthuriana 6:4 (1996 Winter).

Wheeler, Bonnie, and Tolhurst Fiona, eds. On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries. Dallas, Texas: Scriptorium Press, 2001.

Whetter, K. S. Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008.

Wilhelm, James.  The Romance of Arthur. New York:  Garland, 1994.

Wilson, Anne. The Magical Quest : The Use of Magic in Arthurian Romance. Manchester ; New York, New York: Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Wynne-Davies, Marion. Women and Arthurian Literature : Seizing the Sword. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Celtic Materials

Texts

Bromwich, Rachel. Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Welsh Triads, Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary.   Cardiff, Wales, 1961.

Coe, John B. and Simon Young.  The Celtic Sources for the Arthurian Legend.  Felinfach: Llanerch Publ.,  1995.

Cross, T. P. and C. H. Slover, eds.  Ancient Irish Tales.  New York:  Barnes and Noble, 1969.

Jackson, K. H.  The Gododdin; the Oldest Scottish Poem.  Edinburgh, 1969.

Scholarship


Bromwich, Rachel (ed.). The Arthur of the Welsh.  Cardiff, 1991.

Cormier, R. "Tradition and Sources: the Jackson-Loomis Controversy Re-examined." Folklore, 83 (Summer, 1972):. 101-121.

Davidson. H. E.  Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe.  Manchester:  Manchester University Press, 1988.

Gowans, Linda. Cei and the Arthurian Legend. Cambridge Cambridgeshire ; Wolfeboro, N.H.: D.S. Brewer, 1988.

Green, M. J.  Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend.  London:  Thames and Hudson, 1992.

-----. Celtic Myths.  Austin:  University of Texas, Press, 1993.

Jarman, A. O. H. "The Merlin Legend and the Welsh Tradition of Prophecy." The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature. Ed. Rachel Jarman A. O. H. Roberts Brynley F. Huws Daniel Bromwich: Cardiff: U of Wales P 1991. 117-45.

Johnson, Flint. The British Sources of the Abduction and Grail Romances. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2002.

Jones, Gwyn, Kings, Beasts, and Heroes.  London, 1972.

Jones, Thomas.  "The Early Evolution of the Legend of Arthur." Nottingham Medieval Studies, VIII, (1964):  3-21.

Lacy, Norris J., Geoffrey Ashe, and Debra N. Mancoff. The Arthurian Handbook. 2nd ed. New York: Garland Pub., 1997.

Lagorio, Valerie Marie, and Mildred Leake Day. King Arthur through the Ages. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.

Loomis, R.  The Development of Arthurian-Romance.  London, 1963;  New York, 1964.

-----.  Wales and the Arthurian Legend.  Cardiff, Wales, 1956.

-----. Celtic Myth and Arthurian Romance. Chicago: Academay Chicago Publishers, 1997.

MacCana, P.  Celtic Mythology.  London:  Thames and Hudson, 1968.

MacKillop, J.  Dictionary of Celtic Mythology.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1998.

Padel, O. J. Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature. Writers of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000.

Piggott, S.  The Druids. London:  Thames and Hudson, 1968.

Sjoestedt, M.-L.  Gods and Heroes of the Celts. Berkely:  University of California Press, 1982).

Smelik, Bernadette. "The intended audience of Irish Arthurian romances.." Arthuriana 19. (2007): 49.
 

Merlin

Dean, Christopher. A Study of Merlin in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present Day. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1992.

Dobin, Howard. Merlin's Disciples : Prophecy, Poetry, and Power in Renaissance England. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Basil Fulford Lowther (editor) Clarke. Life of Merlin. Vita Merlini. Cardiff: University of Wales Press [for] the Language and Literature Committee of the Board of Celtic Studies, 1973.

Gollnick, James. Comparative Studies in Merlin, from the Vedas to C.G. Jung. Lewiston N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.

Spivack, Charlotte. Merlin : A Thousand Heroes with One Face. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1994.

Watson, Jeanie, and Maureen Fries. The Figure of Merlin in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1989.

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Texts


Geoffrey of Monmouth.  The History of the Kings of Britain.  Tr. Lewis Thorpe.   Baltimore ,1966.

----------.  The Life of Merlin (Vita Merlini).  Ed. and tr. Basil Clarke, Cardiff, 1971.
 

Scholarship

Ashe, Geoffrey.  "The Origins of the Arthurian Legend."  Arthuriana, 5.3 (Fall 1995):  1-24.

Bell, Kimberly. "Merlin as Historian in Historia Regum Britanniae." Arthuriana 10:1 (2000 Spring): 14-26.

Echard, Siãan. Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature ; 36. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Fletcher, R.  Arthurian Material in the Chronicles.  Harvard Studies and Notes in Philosophy and Literature, X.  Boston, 1906; rpt.  New York, 1958.

Gerould, G.  "King Arthur and Politics" Speculum, II (1927): 33-51.

Hanning, Robert W.  The Vision of History in Early Britain from Gildas to Geoffrey of Monmouth.  New York and London, 1966.

Kirby, D. P.  "Vortigern," Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, XXIII (1968): 37-59.

Korrel, Peter. An Arthurian Triangle: A Study of the Origin, Development and Characterization of Arthur, Guinevere and Modred. Leiden: Brill, 1984.

Lloyd, J. E.  "Geoffrey of Monmouth," English Historical Review, LVII (1942):  460-8.

Loomis, R. S.  "Geoffrey of Monmouth and Arthurian Origins," Speculum, III (l929): 16-33.

Padel, O. J..  "The Nature of Arthur. " Cambrian Medieval and Celtic Studies, 27 (Summer 1994):  1-31.

-----.  "Recent Work on the Origins of the Arthurian Legend." Arthuriana 5.3 (Fall 1995):  103-14.

Roberts, Brynley F. "Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae, and Brut Y Brenhinedd." The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature. Ed. Rachel Jarman A. O. H. Roberts Brynley F. Huws Daniel Cardiff U. of Wales P. Bromwich. 97-116..

Tatlock, J. S. P. The Legendary History of Britain; Geoffrey's Historia and its Early Vernacular Versions.  Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1950.

Tolhurst, Fiona. Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend. . Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Web

Ziolkowski, Jan. "The Nature of Prophecy in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini." Poetry and Prophecy: The Beginnings of a Literary Tradition. Geoffrey of Monmouth. Ed. James L. Nagu, Gregory Kugel: Ithaca: Cornell UP 1990. 151-62.

Wace and Layamon

Texts

Mason, E. Arthurian Chronicles.  London, 1928 (contains translations of the Arthurian portions of the works of Wace and Layamon).

Scholarship

Alamichel, Marie-Francoise.   "King Arthur's Dual Personality in Layamon's BrutNeophilologus 77.2 (Apr. 1993):303-19.

Bryan, Elizabeth J. "Layamon's Four Helens: Female Figurations of Nation in the Brut."   Leeds Studies in English  26:63-78.

Donahue, Dennis P. "The Darkly Chronicled King: An Interpretation of the Negative Side of Arthur in Lawman's Brut and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Brittannie.Arthuriana. 8.4 (Winter 1998):135-47.

Everett; D. "Layamon and the Earliest Middle English Alliterative Verse." Essays on Middle English Literature, Oxford, 1955:   28-45

Gray, J. M. "Tennyson and Layamon. " Notes and Queries, 15 (May, 1968):  176-8.

Parry, Joseph D.  "Narrators, Messengers, and Lawman's Brut." Arthuriana 8.3  (Fall 1998):  46-61.

Pickens, Rupert T. "Arthurian time and space: Chrétien's Conte del Graal and Wace's Brut.." Medium Ævum (2006): 219.

Rider, Jeff.   "The Fictional Margin: The Merlin of the Brut. " Modern Philology 87.1 (Aug. 1989):1-12.

Zatta, Jane.   "Translating the Historia: The Ideological Transformation of the Historia regum Britannie in
Twelfth-Century Vernacular Chronicles, "  Arthuriana 8.4 (Winter 1998):148-61.
 

Continental Versions

Chrétien de Troyes.  Romances. Tr. David Staines.  Bloomington, IN, 1993.

The Romance of Perceval in Prose (Didot Perceval, Modena MS).  Tr.  D. Sheels.  Seattle, 1961.
 

Scholarship

Chrétien de Troyes

Armstrong, Grace M. "Questions of Inheritance: Le Chevalier Au Lion and La Queste Del Saint Graal." Yale French Studies.95 (1999): 171-92. <http://links.jstor.org>

Clark, Susan L. and Julian Wasserman.  "Putting the Cart before the Horse:  Excess, Restraint, and Choices in Chrétien's Chevalier de la Charrette.Essays in Literature, 11.1 (Spring 1984):  127-135.

DeLooze, Laurence N.  "Chivalry Qualified:  The Character of Gauvain in Chrétien de Troyes' Le Chevalier de la Charrette. Romanic Review 74.3  (May 1983):  253-259.

Frappier, Jean, and Raymond J. Cormier. Chretien De Troyes, the Man and His Work. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1982.

Jones, Martin H., and R. A. Wisbey. Chrétien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages : Papers from an International Symposium. Arthurian Studies, 26. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, London: D.S. Brewer ; Institute of Germanic Studies, 1993.

Krueger, Roberta L.  "Desire, Meaning,  and the Female Reader:  the Problem in Chrétien's Charrette." Lancelot and Guinevere:  a Casebook.  Garland, 1996:  229-246.

Lacy, Norris J., and Joan T. Grimbert. A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes. Arthurian Studies, 63. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005.

Loomis, R. S.  Arthurian Tradition and Chrétien de Troyes.  New York, 1932.

Maddox, Donald. The Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes : Once and Future Fictions. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature ; 12. Cambridge England ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Mickel, Emanuel.  "The Conflict Between Pitie and Largesse in the Chevalier de la Charrette." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 95.1 (1995):  31-36.

Pickens, Rupert T. "Arthurian time and space: Chrétien's Conte del Graal and Wace's Brut.." Medium Ævum (2006): 219.

Schmolke-Hasselmann, Beate. The Evolution of Arthurian Romance : The Verse Tradition from Chrétien to Froissart. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; 35. Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge

Sturges, Robert S. "Chrétien's Knight of the Cart and Critical Theory." Arthuriana 6:2 (1996 Summer).

Uitti, Karl D., and Michelle A. Freeman. Chrétien de Troyes Revisited. New York, Toronto: Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1995.

 

The Vulgate Cycle (Prose Lancelot, Quest of the Holy Grail, Mort Artu)

Texts

The Lancelot-Grail Reader.  Ed. Norris J. Lacy.  New York:  Routledge, 2000.

The Quest of the Holy Grail.  Tr.  Pauline Matarasso. Baltimore, Maryland:  Penguin, 1971.

The Death of King Arthur.   Tr. James Cable,  Baltimore, Maryland:  Penguin , 1971
 

Scholarship


Adler, A.  "Problems of Aesthetic vs.  Historical Criticism in La Mort le Roi Artu," PMLA, 65 (1950):  930-43.

Caughey, Anna. "Virginity, Sexuality, Repression and Return in the Tale of the Sankgreal." Arthurian Literature (2011): 155. Print. Literature Online.

Dover, Carol. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. Arthurian Studies, 54. Cambridge England: D. S. Brewer, 2003.

Griffin, Miranda. The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle. London
Leeds: Legenda/Modern Humanities Research Association ; Maney Pub., 2005.

Hebert, Jill M. Morgan Le Fay, Shapeshifter. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Kibler, William W. The Lancelot-Grail Cycle : Text and Transformations. 1st ed. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1994.

Locke, F. W.  The Quest for the Holy Graal: A Literary Study of a Thirteenth-Century French Romance.  Stanford Studies in Language and Literature, XXI.  Stanford, 1960.

Looze, Laurence N. de. "A Story of Interpretations: The Queste del Saint Graal as Metaliterature."  Romanic Review 76.2 (Mar. 1985):  129-147.

Matarasso Pauline, The Redemption of Chivalry.  Genève: Droz, 1979.

McCracken, Peggy. "The Poetics of Sacrifice: Allegory and Myth in the Grail Quest."  Yale French Studies 95(1999):  152-68. .

McCracken, Peggy. "Mothers in the Grail Quest: Desire, Pleasure, and Conception."  Arthuriana 8.1(Spring,1998):  35-48.

McLelland, Nicola. Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet : Narrative Style and Entertainment. Arthurian Studies, 46. Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2000.

Masi, Michael.  "King Arthur, the Grail Quest, and Late Medieval Spirituality."  Cithara-Essays in the
Judeo-Christian Tradition 23.2 (May 1984): 16-24.

Pratt, Karen. "Aristotle, Augustine or Boethius? La Mort le Roi Artu as Tragedy."  Nottingham French Studies 30.2 (Autumn 1991):  81-109.

Ramm, Ben. A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2007.

 Terry, Patricia. "Certainties of the Heart: The Poisoned Fruit Episode as a Unifying Exemplum in La Mort le roi Artu"   Rla: Romance Languages Annual 1 (1989:  328-331.

Traxler, Janina P. "Dying to Get to Sarras: Perceval's Sister and the Grail Quest." The Grail: A Casebook. New York NY. Mahoney, Dhira B. (ed. and introd.). New York, NY Garland, 2000: 261-78.

Williams, Andrea M. L. "The Enchanted Swords and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Metaphoric Structure in La Queste del Saint Graal."  French Studies 48.4 (Oct,1994):  385-401.
 
 

 The Stanzaic Morte Arthur and The Alliterative Morte Arthure

Texts

Benson, L. W. King Arthur's Death, the Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the  Alliterative Morte Arthure. Indianapolis and New York, 1974.
 

Scholarship


Barron, W. R. J. "Arthurian Romance: Traces of an English Tradition. " English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 61 (1980):  2-23.

Benson, L. D. "The Alliterative Morte Arthure and Medieval Tragedy." Tennessee Studies in Literature, XI (1966): 75-87.

Beal, Rebecca S.  "Arthur as the Bearer of Civilization: The Alliterative Morte Arthure, ll. 901-19." Arthuriana 5.4 (Winter 1995):32-44.

Hamel, Mary.  "Adventure as Structure in the Alliterative Morte Arthure," Arthurian Interpretations 3(1) Fall 1988:  37-48.

Jaech, Sharon L. Jansen. "The Parting of Lancelot and Gaynor: The Effect of Repetition in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur."  Interpretations: a Journal of Ideas, Analysis, & Criticism, 15(2) Spring 1984:  59-69.

Lumiansky, R. M. "The Alliterative Morte Arthure, the Concept of Medieval Tragedy, and the Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude." Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ed. J. M. Headley.  Chapel Hill, 1968: 95-118.

Patterson, Lee W. "The Historiography of Romance and the Alliterative Morte Arthure, "Journal of Medieval & Renaissance Studies 13.1 (Spring 1983):  1-32.

Wertime, R. A. "The Theme and Structure of the Stanzaic Morte Arthur." PMLA, LXXXVII (1972): 1075-82.

Westover, Jeff. "Arthur's End: The King's Emasculation in the Alliterative Morte Arthure." Chaucer Review 32.3  (1998):  310-24.

Ziolkowski, Jan. "A Narrative Structure in the Alliterative Morte Arthure 1-1221 and 3150-4346."  Chaucer Review 22.3 (1988):  234-245.

Malory's Arthurian Tales

Text

Malory, Thomas.  Works. 3 vols. Ed. Eugène Vinaver. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1947.

-----. King Arthur and his Knights. Ed. Eugène Vinaver. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1975.
 

Scholarship


Ackerman, Felicia. " 'Every Man of Worshyp': Emotion and Characterization in Malory's Le Morte Darthur."  Arthuriana 11.2 (Summer 2001:  32-42.

Archibald, Elizabeth. "Malory's Ideal of Fellowship." The Review of English Studies 43.171 (1992): 311-28. <http://links.jstor.org>

Archibald, Elizabeth, A. S. G. Edwards, and NetLibrary Inc. A Companion to Malory. Arthurian Studies, 37. Rochester, N.Y.: D.S. Brewer, 2000.

Armstrong, Dorsey. Gender and the Chivalric Community of Malory's Morte D'arthur. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.

Armstrong, Dorsey. "Postcolonial Palomides: Malory's Saracen Knight and the Unmaking of Arthurian Community." Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 18.1 (2006): 175-203.


---. "The (non-)Christian knight in Malory: a contradiction in terms?." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch). 16 (2006): 30.

Batt, Catherine. Malory's Morte Darthur : Remaking Arthurian Tradition. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Cherewatuk, Karen.  "Born-Again Virgins and Holy Bastards: Bors and Elyne and Lancelot and Galahad."  Arthuriana 11.2 (Summer 2001):  52-64.

-----. "Malory's Launcelot and the language of sin and confession.." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch). 16 (2006): 68.

Dosanjh, Kate. "Rest in peace: Launcelot's spiritual journey in Le Morte Darthur.." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch). 16 (2006): 63.

Edwards, Elizabeth. The Genesis of Narrative in Malory's Morte Darthur. Arthurian Studies ; 43. Cambridge ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2001

Field, P. J. C.  "Malory and the French Prose Lancelot." Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 75.1 (Spring 1993):  79-102.

Field, P. J. C. Malory: Texts and Sources. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 1998.

Finke, Laurie A. and  Martin B. Shichtman. "No Pain, No Gain: Violence as Symbolic Capital in Malory's Morte d'Arthur." Arthuriana. 8(2):115-34. 1998 Summer

Fletcher, Lydia. "'Traytoures' and 'Treson': The Language of Treason in the Works of Sir Thomas Malory." Arthurian Literature (2011): 75. Print. Literature Online.

Gowans, Linda. "Malory's Sources - and Arthur's Sisters - Revisited." Arthurian Literature (2012): 121. Print. Literature Online.

Hanks, D. Thomas. Sir Thomas Malory : Views and Re-Views. Ams Studies in the Middle Ages, No. 19. New York: AMS Press, 1992.

-----. "William Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde and the editing of Malory's Morte Darthur.." Arthurian Literature (2006): 46

Harris, E. Kay.  "Evidence against Lancelot and Guinevere in Malory's Morte Darthur: Treason by Imagination."  Exemplaria: a Journal of Theory in Medieval & Renaissance Studies 7.1 (Spring 1995):  179-208.

Hodges, Kenneth L. Forging Chivalric Communities in Malory's Le Morte Darthur. Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

 Hoffman, Donald L. "Malory's Tragic Merlin."  Quondam et Futurus: a Journal of Arthurian Interpretations 1.2 (Summer 1991):  15-31.

Ihle, Sandra N. "The Art of Adaptation in Malory's Books Seven and Eight."  Interpretations: a Journal of Ideas,
Analysis, & Criticism 15.2 (Spring 1984):  75-85.

Jesmok, Janet. "'Alas! Who may truste thys world?': absence of trust in Malory's tale of 'Balin le Sauvage'.." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch). 16 (2006): 25.

---. "The double life of Malory's Lancelot du Lake.." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch). 17 (2007): 81.

Kaufman, Amy S. "The law of the lake: Malory's sovereign lady.." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch), 17 (2007): 56.

-----. "Guenevere Burning." Arthuriana 20 (2010): 76-94. Web

Kennedy, Beverly.  "Malory's Lancelot: 'Trewest Lover, of a Synful Man'."  Viator: Medieval & Renaissance Studies. 12 (1981):  409-56.

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Kennedy, Edward Donald. "Malory's Guenevere: 'A Woman Who Had Grown a Soul'."  Arthuriana 9.2 (Spring 1999):  37-45.

Kim, Hyonjin. The Knight without the Sword : A Social Landscape of Malorian Chivalry. Arthurian Studies, 45. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2000.

Kraemer, Alfred Robert. Malory's Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.

Larrington, Carolyne. "Sibling Relations in Malory's Morte Darthur." Arthurian Literature (2011): 57. Print. Literature Online.

Life, Page West, and University of Virginia. Bibliographical Society. Sir Thomas Malory and the Morte Darthur : A Survey of Scholarship and Annotated Bibliography. Charlottesville: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia, 1980.

Lynch, Andrew. Malory's Book of Arms : The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur. Arthurian Studies, 39. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 1997.

Lynch, Andrew. "A tale of 'simple' Malory and the critics.." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch) (2006): 10.
---. "Beyond shame: chivalric cowardice and Arthurian narrative.." Arthurian Literature, 16 (2006): 1.

McCarthy, Terence. An Introduction to Malory. Arthurian Studies, 20. Reprinted with corrections. ed. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 1991.

---. Reading the Morte Darthur. Cambridge ; Wolfeboro, N.H.: D.S. Brewer, 1988.

Merrill, Robert. Sir Thomas Malory and the Cultural Crisis of the Late Middle Ages. New York: P. Lang, 1987.

Moll, Richard J. Before Malory : Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Nickel, Helmut. "About the Knight with Two Swords and the Maiden under a Tree.." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch), 17 (2007): 29.

Norris, Ralph. "The Tragedy of Balin: Malory's Use of the Balin Story in the Morte Darthur." Arthuriana 9.3 (Fall 1999):  52-67.

-----. Malory's Library: The Sources of the Morte Darthur. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008.

Radulescu, Raluca. The Gentry Context for Malory's Morte Darthur. Arthurian Studies, 55. Cambridge England ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2003.

Reynolds, Rebecca L. "Elaine of Ascolat's death and the ars moriendi.." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch). 16 (2006): 35.

Spisak, James W. Studies in Malory. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications Western Michigan University, 1985.

Svogun, Margaret duMais. Reading Romance : Literacy, Psychology, and Malory's Le Morte D'aarthur. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.

Walsh, John Michael. "Malory's Characterization of Elaine of Astolat." Philological Quarterly 59.2 (Spring 1980): 140-149.

Walsh, John Michael. "Malory's Arthur and the Plot of Agravain." Texas Studies in Literature & Language 23.4 (Winter 1981):  517-534.

Wheeler, Bonnie, Robert L. Kindrick, and Michael Norman Salda. The Malory Debate : Essays on the Texts of Le Morte Darthur. Arthurian Studies, 47. Cambridge England ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2000.

Whetter, K. S., and Raluca Radulescu. Re-Viewing Le Morte Darthur : Texts and Contexts, Characters and Themes. Arthurian Studies, 60. Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2005.

Tennyson, Idylls of the King

Texts

Ricks, Christopher, Tennyson:  a Selected Edition.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1989.
 

Scholarship

Girouard, Mark.  The Return to Camelot : Chivalry and the English Gentleman.  New Haven : Yale University Press, 1981.

John D. Jump (ed.).  Lord Alfred Tennyson : the Critical Heritage.  London : Routledge, 1967.

Sinfield, Alan. Alfred Tennyson. Oxford, OX, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1986.

Tucker, Herbert F.  Critical Essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson.  New York: G.K. Hall ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York:  Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.

Fries, Maureen.  "What Tennyson Really Did to Malory's Women." Quondam et Futurus: A Journal of Arthurian
Interpretations. vol. 1 no. 1(1991): 44-55.

Gilbert, Elliot L.  "The Female King: Tennyson's Arthurian Apocalypse." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America . 98.5, (1983):  863-878.  Rpt. Kennedy, Edward Donald (ed.). King Arthur: A Casebook.  New York: Garland, 1996:  229-55.

Kiernan, Victor.  "Tennyson, King Arthur, and Imperialism."  Samuel, Raphael (ed.); Jones, Gareth Stedman (ed.).  Culture, Ideology and Politics: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm.    London: Routledge, 1982:  126-148.

Knight, Stephen.  "The Phantom King " Arthurian Literature and Society.  New York: St. Martin's, 1983.

Matthews, Samantha. "Burying Tennyson: The Victorian Laureate Immortalized." Mortality 7, no 3 (2002): 247-68.

Platizky, Roger S. ""Like Dull Narcotics, Numbing Pain": Speculations on Tennyson and Opium." Victorian Poetry 40, no 2 (2002): 209-15.

Shaw, W. David . "Divining Desire: Tennyson and the Poetics of Transcendence (Review)." Victorian Studies 44, no 1 (2001): 101-03.

Simpson, Roger. Camelot Regained : The Arthurian Revival and Tennyson, 1800- 1849. Cambridge England ; Wolfeboro, N.H.: D.S. Brewer, 1990.

Simpson, Arthur L., Jr.  “Elaine the Unfair, Elaine the Unlovable: The Socially  Destructive Artist/Woman in Idylls of the King." Modern Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in  Medieval and Modern Literature,. 89 (3)1992:
341-62.

Sylvia, Richard A.  "Sexual Politics and Narrative Method in Tennyson's  'Guinevere'." Victorian Newsletter,  vol. 76, (1989): 23-28.

Tucker, Herbert F. "The Epic Plight of Troth in Idylls of the King." ELH 58.3 (1991): 701-20. <http://links.jstor.org>

King Arthur, Medievalism, and Popular Cuture

Medievalism

Alamichel, Marie-Franðcoise, and Derek Brewer. The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World. Rochester, N.Y.: D.S. Brewer, 1997.

Allaire, Gloria. Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts. Aldershot England ; Brookfield Vt.: Ashgate, 1999.

Álvarez-Faedo, María José (ed.). Avalon revisited: reworkings of the Arthurian myth. New York; Frankfurt: Lang, 2007

Barber, Richard W. King Arthur in Music. Arthurian Studies, [52]. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2002.

Barczewski, Stephanie L. Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth Century Britain : The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood. Oxford England ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Bryden, Inga. Reinventing King Arthur : The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

Fay, Elizabeth A. Romantic Medievalism : History and the Romantic Literary Ideal. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Goodman, Jennifer R. The Legend of Arthur in British and American Literature. Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, 1988.

Hasty, Will. "Revolutions and Final Solutions: On Enlightenment and Its Dialectic in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Arthuriana 24 (2014): 21-42. Print.

Ingham, Patricia. Sovereign Fantasies : Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

King, Roma A. The Pattern in the Web : The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1990.

Lambdin, Laura C., and Robert T. Lambdin. Camelot in the Nineteenth Century : Arthurian Characters in the Poems of Tennyson, Arnold, Morris, and Swinburne. Contributions to the Study of World Literature, No. 97. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Mancoff, Debra N. The Arthurian Revival : Essays on Form, Tradition, and Transformation. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities ; Vol. 1419. New York: Garland Pub., 1992.

---. King Arthur's Modern Return. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.

Marino, John B. The Grail Legend in Modern Literature. Arthurian Studies, 59. Cambridge England ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2004.

Mathis, Andrew E. The King Arthur Myth in Modern American Literature. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002.

Morris, Megan L. "'Recalled to Life': King Arthur's Return and the Body of the Past in Nineteenth-Century England." Arthuriana (2011): 5. Print. Literature Online.

Palmgren, Jennifer A., and Lorretta M. Holloway. Beyond Arthurian Romances : The Reach of Victorian Medievalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Petrina, Alessandra. "Forbidden feast, enchanted castle: Arthurian spaces in the Harry Potter novels.." Mythlore (2006): 95.

Poulson, Christine. The Quest for the Grail : Arthurian Legend in British Art, 1840-1920. Manchester, U.K., New York: Manchester University Press , St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Tolhurst, Fiona. "Helping Girls to Be Heroic? Some Recent Arthurian Fiction for Young Adults." Arthuriana 22.3 (2012): 69-90. Web.

Valdés-Miyares, Rubén. "Morgan's queendom: the other Arthurian myth.." In Álvarez-Faedo, María José (ed.). Avalon revisited: reworkings of the Arthurian myth. New York; Frankfurt: Lang, 2007: 133-54.

Verduin, Kathleen. Medievalism in North America . Cambridge ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 1994.

Workman, Leslie J. Medievalism in England. Cambridge England Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 1992.

Workman, Leslie J., and Kathleen Verduin. Medievalism in England II. Studies in Medievalism, 7. Cambridge England ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 1996.

Popular Culture

Besamusca, Bart. "The Fringes of Arthurian Fiction." Ed. Jessica Quinlan. Arthurian Literature (2012): 191. Print. Literature Online.

Davidson, Roberta. "When King Arthur Is PG 13." Arthuriana 22.3 (2012): 5-20. Web.

Falsani, Teresa Boyle.  "Parke Godwin's Guenevere: An Archetypal Transformation."  Quondam et Futurus: a Journal of Arthurian Interpretations. 3.3 (1993):  55-65.

Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

Gallix, François. "T. H. White and the Legend of King Arthur: From Animal Fantasy to Political Morality." King Arthur: A Casebook. Ed. Edward Donald Kennedy. New York: Garland 1996. 281-311

Gordon-Wise, Barbara Ann. The Reclamation of a Queen : Guinevere in Modern Fantasy. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Hoberg, Tom. "In Her Own Right: The Guinevere of Parke Godwin." Popular Arthurian Traditions.  Ed. Sally K. Slocum.  Bowling Green, OH:  Popular Press, 1992: 68-79.

Hoffman, Donald L. "Mark's Merlin: Magic Vs. Technology in a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Popular Arthurian Traditions. Ed. Sally K. Slocum: Bowling Green OH: Popular 1992. 46-55.

Howey, Ann F. Rewriting the Women of Camelot : Arthurian Popular Fiction and Feminism. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, No. 93. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Jankofsky, Klaus P. " 'America' in Parke Godwin's Arthurian Novels." Arthurian Interpretations. 4.2 (Spring 1990):  65-80.

Lupack, Alan. "The Once and Future King: The Book That Grows Up." Arthuriana 11:3 (2001 Fall): 103-14.

Lupack, Alan, and Barbara Tepa Lupack. King Arthur in America. Arthurian Studies, 41. Cambridge England ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 1999.

Lupack, Barbara Tepa. Adapting the Arthurian Legends for Children : Essays on Arthurian Juvenilia. Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Mancoff, Debra N.(ed.). The Arthurian Revival : Essays on Form, Tradition, and Transformation.  New York : Garland Pub., 1992.

Mancoff, Debra N.  The Return of King Arthur:  the Legend through Victorian Eyes. New York, 1995.

Nastali, Dan.  "Arthur Without Fantasy:  Dark Age Britain in Recent Historical Fiction." Arthuriana 9.1 (1999):  5-22.

Rutledge, Amelia A. "The Grunts' King Arthur: Civic Humanism, Masculinities, and Legend in the Novels of Jack Whyte and Bernard Cornwell." Medieval Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Jeremy Duquesnay Adams. Ed. Stephanie Hayes-Healy. Vol. 2. New York: Palgrave, 2005. 239-50.

Simpson, Roger. Radio Camelot: Arthurian Legends on the BBC, 1922-2005. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008.

Sklar, Judith.  "Thoroughly Modern Morgan:  Morgan le Fay in Twentieth-Century Popular Arthuriana."  Popular Arthurian Tradition.  Ed. Sally Slocum. Bowling Green:  Popular Press, 1992:  24-35

Sklar, Elizabeth Sherr, and Donald L. Hoffman. King Arthur in Popular Culture. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002.

Slocum, Sally K. (ed.).  Popular Arthurian Traditions. Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992.

Spivack, Charlotte. Merlin's Daughters : Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, No. 23. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Spivack, Charlotte, and Roberta Lynne Staples. The Company of Camelot : Arthurian Characters in Romance and Fantasy. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, No. 61. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Sprague, Kurth. "The troubled heart of T. H. White: women and The Once and Future King.." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch). 16 (2006): 1.

Talcroft, Barbara L. Death of the Corn King : King and Goddess in Rosemary Sutcliff's Historical Fiction for Young Adults. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Thompson, Raymond H. Return from Avalon:  A Study of the Arthurian Legend in Modern Science Fiction.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood, 1985.

Tolhurst, Fiona. "Helping Girls to Be Heroic? Some Recent Arthurian Fiction for Young Adults." Arthuriana 22.3 (2012): 69-90. Web.

Worthington, Heather. "From Children's Story to Adult Fiction: T. H. White's the Once and Future King." Arthuriana 12:2 (2002 Summer): 97-119.

Film

Aberth, John. A Knight at the Movies : Medieval History on Film. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Pandro S. Berman, director, and Richard Thorpe; screenplay. Knights of the Round Table . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released by Loew's, 1953.

Boorman, John, et al. Excalibur. videorecording. Warner Home Video, Burbank, CA, 1999.

Bresson, Robert. Lancelot Du Lac. New Yorker Video, 1995.

Chapman, Graham, et al. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. videorecording. Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, London, 2004.

Finke, Laurie A. "Out of mind, out of sight.." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch). 17 (2007): 101.

Harty, Kevin J. Cinema Arthuriana : Essays on Arthurian Film. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities ; Vol. 1426. New York: Garland Pub., 1991.

---. Cinema Arthuriana : Twenty Essays. Rev. ed. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2002.

Lacy, Norris J. Arthurian Interpretations. "Arthurian Film and the Tyranny of Tradition." Arthurian Interpretations 4:1 (1989 Fall): 75-85.

Shippey, Tom. "Fuqua's King Arthur: More Myth-Making in America." Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 19.2 (2007): 310-26.

Sullivan, Joseph M. "Cinema Arthuriana without Malory? The international reception of Fuqua, Franzoni, and Bruckheimer's King Arthur (2004).." Arthuriana (International Arthurian Soc. - North American Branch). 17 (2007): 85.

Williams, David. "Medieval Movies." The Yearbook of English Studies 20 (1990): 1-32. <http://links.jstor.org>


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