Authors: Thomas Malory, Elizabeth Bryan
ISBN-13: 9780679600992, ISBN-10: 067960099X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: July 1994
Edition: Modern Library Edition
Elizabeth J. Bryan is associate professor of English at Brown University. She is the author of Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho LaZamon.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
A primary and secondary source to the 15th-century prose saga for students of English literature. The text includes footnotes explaining terms and references, and marginal references to manuscript pages. A glossary, related contemporary documents, and recent critical essays support the text. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Chronologies | ||
Arthur Before Malory | ||
The Wars of the Roses | ||
Malory: Life Events | ||
Receptions of Le Morte Darthur to 1934 | ||
Reading Malory's English | ||
Editorial Procedure/Reading the Edition | ||
Abbreviations | ||
Le Morte Darthur or The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table | 1 | |
Sources and Backgrounds | 699 | |
Responses to the Times | 759 | |
Criticism | 795 | |
Malory and Rape | 797 | |
Prologue and Epilogue to the 1485 Edition | 814 | |
Counter-Romance: Civil Strife and Father-Killing in the Prose Romances | 819 | |
The Rhetoric of Dialogue | 830 | |
Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory | 835 | |
Shame and Guilt | 849 | |
On Malory's Style | 856 | |
Manuscripts, Readers, and Patrons in Fifteenth-Century England: Sir Thomas Malory and Arthurian Romance | 865 | |
Divisions | 882 | |
Mellyagant's Primal Scene | 894 | |
Glossary | 907 | |
Selected Guide to Proper Names | 939 | |
Selected Bibliography | 945 |