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King Arthur in America (Paperback)
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King Arthur in America (Paperback)
Series: Arthurian Studies
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The first full-length study to focus exclusively on American
reinterpretations of the Arthurian legends. The Arthurian legends
have had an immense and enduring appeal in America, influencing
both America's own mythologies and its literature, film, social
history, and popular culture. This is the first full-length study
to focus exclusively on American re-interpretations of Arthuriana,
and it offers detailed treatments of major authors traditionally
associated with the legends, including Mark Twain, Edwin Arlington
Robinson, T.S. Eliot, and John Steinbeck; italso explores the
important use of Arthurian material by authors not usually
considered in an Arthurian context, and by lesser-known writers.
Among the topics addressed in the chronological survey are the
beginnings of American Arthurian literature and the different
reactions to Tennyson; satire and parody; the moralising of
knighthood and the development of a body of didactic literature for
children; and the reinterpretations of Arthurian tradition in
theworks of contemporary writers such as Walker Percy and John
Updike. A concluding chapter analyses Arthurian themes in American
popular fiction and film and demonstrates the extent to which the
Arthurian tradition has influenced American popular culture. The
volume is completed with a comprehensive bibliography. ALAN LUPACK
is Curator of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library at the University of
Rochester; BARBARA TEPA LUPACKis former AcademicDean at SUNY and
Fulbright Professor of American Literature in Poland and France.
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