Description: The second volume of The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture charts the growth and spread of Arthurian matter outwards from Britain into Europe, and then into the globalising world of the 1500s and beyond, up to the present day. In the opening chapters, Welsh and continental engagements with and adaptations of Arthuriana are foregrounded, alongside its permutations throughout the British early modern, Romantic, and Victorian eras. Essays then explore how the legend has gained new resonances and found new means of expression in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, through media as diverse as cinema, television, cartoons, games, and tourist packages. Chapters reveal how Arthurian matter remains relevant to issues such as race, gender, the emotions, and childhood, and how it has come to suffuse popular and literary culture on a global scale, in Japan, Australia, Latin America, and Africa.
Brief description: Raluca L. Radulescu is President of the International Arthurian Society and former editor of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society. Her publications include two monographs, The Gentry Context for Malory's Morte Darthur (2003) and Romance and its Contexts in Late Medieval England: Politics, Piety and Penitence (2013), and eleven coedited collections of essays and journal issues on manuscript miscellanies, the Brut chronicles, genealogy and heraldry, and medieval popular romance.