Reconstructing Camelot: French Romantic Medievalism and the Arthurian Tradition
French Romanticism was a widespread movement, as apparent in the works of historians and scholars as in the works of creative writers. One of its principal characteristics was the cult of the middle ages, and this book examines the treatment of the Arthurian legends in French Romantic medievalism. Taking into account works of historiography and literary history, as well as literary texts proper, it assesses the place of the Arthurian material in French culture in the period up to 1860, the...
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Study exploring the treatment of the Arthurian legends by the French Romantic movement.
PrefaceIntroduction1The Ideological Background: Chivalry, Feudalism and Romance in the Literary Critical and Historical Discourse of the Restoration12The Literary Battleground: Medieval and Arthurian Literature in the Romantic Debate in France, 1813-1830273Towards the 'Real' Middle Ages: The Status and Function of Medieval Literary Scholarship in France, 1830-1860584In Search of National Identity: Medieval and Arthurian Literature in the Historical Imagination of Quinet, Michelet and Henri Martin895The Bard and the Troubadour: The Debate on the Origins and Diffusion of the Arthurian Material in French Romantic Scholarship1196Retelling the Tale: New Versions of the Arthurian Material in French Literature, 1812-1860144Conclusion173Bibliography177Index189
