To me, methought, who waited with a crowd,
There came a bark that, blowing forward, bore
King Arthur, like a modern gentleman
Of stateliest port; and all the people cried,
"Arthur is come again: he cannot die."

"Morte d'Arthur" (1842)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Arthuriana 22.3 Out Now

Arrived in last week's mail and available now online from the publisher or Project MUSE:

ARTHURIANA 22.3 (FALL 2012)

SPECIAL ISSUE ON "ARTHURIAN GRRRRLS"

Grrrls and Arthurian Stories
Bonnie Wheeler

When King Arthur is PG 13
Roberta Davidson

The Queens of Avalon: William Forbush’s Arthurian Antidote
Laurie A. Finke and Susan Aronstein

‘His Princess’: An Arthurian Family Drama
Amy S. Kaufman

The Girl’s King Arthur: Retelling Tales
Barbara Tepa Lupack

Helping Girls to Be Heroic?: Some Recent Arthurian Fiction For Young Adults
Fiona Tolhurst



REVIEWS

Siobhain Bly Calkin, Saracens and the Making of English Identity: The Auchinleck Manuscript
Jacqueline De Weever

Laine E. Doggett, Love Cures: Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance
Lynn Ramey

Christine Elsweiler, Layamon’s ‘Brut’ between Old English Heroic Poetry and Middle English Romance: A Study of the Lexical Fields ‘Hero,’ ‘Warrior’ and ‘Knight’
Lucy Perry

William Farina, Chrétien de Troyes and the Dawn of Arthurian Romance
Laine E. Doggett

Randy P. Schiff, Revivalist Fantasy: Alliterative Verse and Nationalist Literary History
Thorlac Turville-Petre

Randy P. Schiff, Revivalist Fantasy: Alliterative Verse and Nationalist Literary History
Mary Kate Hurley

Logan E. Whalen, ed., A Companion to Marie de France
Matthieu Boyd