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, December 25, 2022

Now Out in Paperback: A New Companion to Malory


A New Companion to Malory


Edited by Megan G Leitch and Cory James Rushton

Full details and order information are available from the publisher at this link


TITLE DETAILS

344 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

11 b/w illus.

Series: Arthurian Studies
Series Vol. Number: 87

Imprint: D.S.Brewer




Paperback

9781843846758

November 2022

£25.99 / $37.95




A comprehensive survey of Malory's Morte Darthur, one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages.

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 milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates 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.




CONTENTS

Introduction
Malory in Historical Context - Catherine Nall
Malory and His Sources - Ralph Norris
Writing the Morte Darthur: Author, Manuscript, and Modern Editions - Kevin S Whetter and Thomas Howard Crofts
Malory in Literary Context - Megan G. Leitch
Malory in Print - Sian Echard
Malory and Form - Cory Rushton
Malory and Character - Dorsey Armstrong
Malory and Gender - Amy S. Kaufman
Malory and Emotion - Andrew Lynch
Secular Malory - Lisa Robeson
Spiritual Malory - Raluca Radulescu
Malory and the Wider World - Meg Roland
Malory in Wartime Britain - Robert Gossedge
Malory in Japan - Masako Takagi
Malory in America - Daniel Glynn Helbert


AUTHORS

MEGAN G. LEITCH is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University; CORY JAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada.

Contributors: Dorsey Armstrong, Thomas Crofts, Siân Echard, Rob Gossedge, Daniel Helbert, Amy Kaufman, Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch, Catherine Nall, Ralph Norris, Raluca Radulescu, Lisa Robeson, Meg Roland, Cory Rushton, Masako Takagi, Kevin Whetter.