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C Arthurian Studies O M SERIES EDITOR: Norris J. Lacey P A N I OA Malory’s Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught NN text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of E critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in T OW understanding its milieux: textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the text and the author. The essays it contains provide a synthetic overview of, and fresh perspectives on, the key questions about and contexts connected with the Morte. megan g. leitch is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. cory james rushton is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. Contributors: Dorsey Armstrong, Thomas H. Crofts, Siân Echard, Rob Gossedge, Daniel Helbert, Amy S. Kaufman, Megan G. Leitch, Andrew Lynch, Catherine Nall, Ralph Norris, Raluca L. Radulescu, Lisa Robeson, Meg Roland, Cory James Rushton, Masako Takagi, K. S. Whetter. Cover image: ‘How Morgan le Fay Gave a Shield to Sir Tristram’, ill. Aubrey Beardsley (1893–94). A NEW COMPANION TO Cover design: www.stay-creative.co.uk AE ND DIT CE D O B R YY J M A E MG EDITED BY EA SN MEGAN G. LEITCH AND RU G CORY JAMES RUSHTON SH. LE TI OT C NH ARTHURIAN STUDIES LXXXVII A NEW COMPANION TO MALORY ARTHURIAN STUDIES ISSN 0261-9814 General Editor: Norris J. Lacy Previously published volumes in the series are listed at the back of this book A NEW COMPANION TO MALORY edited by Megan G. Leitch and Cory James Rushton D. S. BREWER © Contributors 2019 All rights reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast,transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 2019 D. S. Brewer, Cambridge ISBN 978 1 84384 523 2 D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mount Hope Ave, Rochester, NY 14620–2731, USA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com The publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This publication is printed on acid-free paper Contents List of Illustrations vii List of Contributors ix List of Abbreviations x List of Editions xi Introduction 1 Megan G. Leitch and Cory James Rushton A Note on Malory’s Text 11 I The Morte Darthur: Text(s) and Contexts 1 Malory in Historical Context 15 Catherine Nall 2 Malory and His Sources 32 Ralph Norris 3 Writing the Morte Darthur: Author, Manuscript and Modern Editions 53 Thomas H. Crofts and K. S. Whetter 4 Malory in Literary Context 79 Megan G. Leitch 5 Malory in Print 96 Siân Echard II Approaches to Malory 6 Malory and Form 125 Cory James Rushton 7 Malory and Character 144 Dorsey Armstrong vi CONTENTS 8 Malory and Gender 164 Amy S. Kaufman 9 Malory and Emotion 177 Andrew Lynch 10 Secular Malory 191 Lisa Robeson 11 Spiritual Malory 211 Raluca L. Radulescu 12 Malory and the Wider World 227 Meg Roland III Malory’s Afterlives 13 Malory in Wartime Britain 253 Rob Gossedge 14 Malory in Japan 271 Masako Takagi 15 Malory in America 296 Daniel Helbert Select Bibliography 317 Index 321 Illustrations Chapter 5. Malory in Print, Siân Echard Figure 1. Opening of Book II, in the John Rylands Library copy of Caxton’s printing of the Morte, 1485, leaf 81. Copyright The University of Manchester. 98 Figure 2. Balin drawing the sword, from the opening of Book II in the John Rylands Library copy of Wynkyn de Worde’s printing of the Morte, 1498, leaf 56. Copyright The University of Manchester. 100 Figure 3. Title page to William Copland’s 1557 printing of the Morte, featuring St George. With thanks to the Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College. 102 Figure 4. Frontispiece to the Stansby/Bloom 1634; copy from the Folger Shakespeare Library (STC 806 copy 1). Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library under a Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 105 Figure 5. Frontispiece and title page to volume 2 of the Walker and Edwards printing of 1816. Image courtesy of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of British Columbia Library. 108 Figure 6. Opening of Book VI in the Shakespeare Head Morte, 1933. Copyright The University of Manchester. 115 Figure 7. Opening of Book II, from the Dent-Beardsley Morte, 1893–1894. Image courtesy of Rare Books and Special Collections, The University of British Columbia Library. 118 Chapter 12. Malory and the Wider World, Meg Roland Figure 1. Hereford Map, c. 1300. Copyright The Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral and the Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust. 231 Figure 2. Ptolemy, Geographia [Geography], Florence, c. 1460–70. By permission of the New York Public Library. 232 Figure 3. Petrus Roselli portolan chart, 1466. By permission of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota. 235 viii ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 4. Detail, Roselli portolan chart. By permission of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota. 236 The editors, contributors and publisher are grateful to all the institutions and persons listed for permission to reproduce the materials in which they hold copy right. Every effort has been made to trace the copyright holders; apologies are offered for any omission, and the publisher will be pleased to add any neces- sary acknowledgement in subsequent editions.
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