Sovereign fantasies : Arthurian romance and the making of Britain

Sovereign fantasies : Arthurian romance and the making of Britain / Patricia Clare Ingham.

During and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problems of royal succession, volatile relations with their French cousins, and the consolidation of their colonial ambitions toward the areas of Wales and Scotland. Patricia Ingham bring...

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Main Author: Ingham, Patricia Clare, 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
To 1500
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Arthurian romances > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
Historical fiction, English > History and criticism.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Arthurian romances
English literature > Middle English
Historical fiction, English
Literature and history
National characteristics, British, in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART I: THE MATTER OF BRITAIN; 1 Arthurian Imagination and the ""Makyng"" of History; 2 Arthurian Futurism and British Destiny; PART II: ROMANCING THE THRONE; 3 Disavowing Romance: Colonial Loss and Stories of the Past; 4 ""In Contrayez Straunge"": Sovereign Rivals, Fantasies of Gender, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; 5 Dangerous Liaisons: Disloyalty, Adultery, and the Tragedy of Romance; PART III: INSULAR LOSSES; 6 Military Intimacies: The Pleasures and Pains of Conquest; 7 ""Necessary"" Losses: Royal Death and English Remembrance; Afterword: Lost Books.
  • NotesBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Acknowledgments.

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