Bibliographies

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 Years Work in Modern Languages)

The journal Arthuriana (GMU now has a full set) is published by the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.  It maintains a bibliographic website  jointly with the Camelot Project.
 

 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. (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)
 

II. Historical and General Studies

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.

-----. "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.

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

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

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.

Fenster, Thelma S. Arthurian Women : A Casebook. New York: Garland, 1996.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.
 

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
 

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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
 

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

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.

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.

 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.
 
 

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.
 

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.

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.
 

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

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

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

Harty, Kevin J. King Arthur on Film: New Essays on Arthurian Cinema.  Jefferson, N.C.:  McFarland, 1999.

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..

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.