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

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001] ©2001

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Description 288 pages ; 24 cm Series The Middle Ages series Middle Ages series. Contents Pt. I. The Matter of Britain -- 1. Arthurian Imagination and the "Making" of History -- 2. Arthurian Futurism and British Destiny -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. III. Insular Losses -- 6. Military Intimacies: The Pleasures and Pains of Conquest -- 7. "Necessary" Losses: Royal Death and English Remembrance -- Afterword: Lost Books Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-280) and index Subject Arthurian romances -- History and criticism. Britons in literature. English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism. Kings and rulers in literature. Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism. Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500. National characteristics, British, in literature. Romances, English -- History and criticism. LC no. 00066966 ISBN 0812236009 (alk. paper)

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