King Arthur in America
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; it also explores the important use of...
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The first full-length study to focus exclusively on American reinterpretations of the Arthurian legends.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface1Arthurian Literature in America before Twain12Reaction to Tennyson: Parody353Reaction to Tennyson: Visions of Courageous Achievement594From Twain to the Twenties935Beyond The Waste Land: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner1356Steinbeck and the Arthurian Legend1837Contemporary Novelists2108The Arthurian Tradition and American Popular Culture276Bibliography327Index359
