Camelot Regained
The Arthurian Revival and Tennyson 1800-1849
Roger Simpson
`Roger Simpson['s] finds are crisp, detailed, and convincing.' MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW The revival of interest in Arthurian literature in the early part of the 19th century has been largely unremarked until now. Roger Simpson's wide-ranging study of this period, in which he traces the dominant forms adopted by the Arthurian revival and presents a wealth of new material, shows it to have been of critical importance in the development of the legend and to have been a powerful early influence on Tennyson, whose role within the Arthurian revival is accordingly reassessed. His book also contains a complete bibliography of early 19th-century Arthurian poetry, drama and prose fiction, together with catalogues of paintings and illustrated books.
ROGER SIMPSON is Director, Centre for Overseas Student Programmes, at the University of East Anglia
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DETAILS
27 b/w illustrations
301 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
10 digit ISBN: 0859913007
13 digit ISBN: 9780859913003
Binding: Hardback
First published: 15/Feb/1990
Price: 95.00 USD / 50.00 GBP
Imprint: D. S. Brewer
Series: Arthurian Studies
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC class: CTKB
STATUS: Print on demand (please allow 3 weeks for delivery)
Details updated on 03/07/2008
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Reviews
`Roger Simpson started investigating influences on a group of Tennyson's early poems, and found himself rewriting a piece of English literary history. His finds are crisp, detailed, and convincing.' MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEWSucceeds admirably as acomprehensive survey of Arthuriana in the 18th and early 19th centuries. MODERN PHILOLOGY`... a welcome addition to an Arthurian library...especially sugnificant for those who are interested in the continuing tradition of Arthur and his entourage. It is meticulously researched and admirably written, and it does indeed encourage a reassessment of the Arthurian revival of the first half of the nineteenth century.' REBECCA COCHRAN, University of Nebraska at Kearney. `A fascinating act of recovery - in turn provides the context for Tennyson's own early Arthurian poems, impressive scholarship.' LINCS HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
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