Research Catalog

Title

Mapping Malory : regional identities and national geographies in Le morte Darthur / Dorsey Armstrong and Kenneth Hodges.

Author

Armstrong, Dorsey, 1970-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hodges, Kenneth L.

Description

xii, 232 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"While most criticism has treated romance's use of place as fantastic and essentially meaningless, our book argues that geography is a crucial element in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur; our analysis of the concerns of nation, region, borders, and identity in this text sheds new light on how Malory both understood the 'England' in which he was writing and how he imagined the 'Arthurian Community' he depicts in his text. The great knights in Le Morte Darthur come from regions where sovereignty is a vexed issue, and their rivalries, rather than being fictions of individuals, capture significant political divisions of the fifteenth century. Our work thus not only provides fundamental reinterpretations of Malory's book, but also places it in larger discussions of how regional and national identities developed at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern period" --

Series Statement

Arthurian and courtly cultures

Uniform Title

Studies in Arthurian and courtly cultures.

Subject

• Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
• Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century > Geography
• Geography in literature
• Regionalism in literature
• Nationalism in literature
• Politics in literature
• Arthurian romances > History and criticism
• Romances, English > History and criticism
• England > In literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The places of romance (Kenneth Hodges) -- Mapping Malory's Morte: the (physical) place -- And (narrative) space of Cornwall (Dorsey Armstrong) -- Of Wales and women: Guenevere's sister and the isles (Kenneth Hodges) -- Sir Gawain, Scotland, Orkney (Kenneth Hodges) -- Trudging toward Rome, drifting toward Sarras (Dorsey Armstrong) -- Why Malory's Launcelot is not French: region, nation, and political identity (Kenneth Hodges) -- Conclusion: Malory's questing beast and the geography of the Arthurian world (Dorsey Armstrong).

Call Number

JFD 14-636

ISBN

• 9781137034854 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1137034858 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2014002971

OCLC

878224445

Author

Armstrong, Dorsey, 1970- author.

Title

Mapping Malory : regional identities and national geographies in Le morte Darthur / Dorsey Armstrong and Kenneth Hodges.

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Arthurian and courtly cultures

Studies in Arthurian and courtly cultures.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hodges, Kenneth L., author.

Research Call Number

JFD 14-636