Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain

by Patricia Clare Ingham and E.J. Koh

Book Overview

During and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problems of royal succession, volatile relations with their French cousins, and the consolidation of their colonial ambitions toward the areas of Wales and Scotland. Patricia Ingham brings these precarious historical positions to bear on readings of Arthurian literature in Sovereign Fantasies, a provocative work deeply engaged with postcolonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812236009
• ISBN13: 9780812236002
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"