The Inklings and King Arthur

The Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain is a collection of scholarly essays edited by Sørina Higgins on the Matter of Britain.

Contents
  • Introduction—Present and Past: The Inklings and King Arthur
  • — by Sørina Higgins
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Inventory of Inklings Arthuriana

Texts and Intertexts

  • 1. The Matter of Logres: Arthuriana and the Inklings
  • — by Sørina Higgins
  • 2. Medieval Arthurian Sources for the Inklings: An Overview
  • — by Holly Ordway
  • 3. Mixed Metaphors and Hyperlinked Worlds: A Study of Intertextuality in C.S. Lewis' Ransom Cycle
  • — Brenton D.G. Dickieson
  • 4. Houses of Healing: The Idea of Avalon in Inklings Fiction and Poetry
  • — Charles A. Huttar
  • 5. Shape and Direction: Human Consciousness in the Inklings' Mythological Geographies
  • — Christopher Gaertner

Histories Past

  • 6. From Myth to History and Back Again: Inklings Arthuriana in Historical Context
  • — by Yannick Imbert
  • 7. "All Men Live by Tales": Chesterton's Arthurian Poems
  • — J. Cameron Moore
  • 8. The Elegiac Fantasy of Past Christendom in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur
  • — by Cory Grewell

Histories Present

  • 9. Spiritual Quest in a Scientific Age
  • — by Jason Jewell and Chris Butynskyi
  • 10. The Stripped Banner: Reading The Fall of Arthur as a Post-World War I Text
  • — by Taylor Driggers
  • 11. "Lilacs Out of the Dead Land": Narnia, The Waste Land, and the World Wars
  • — by Jon Hooper
  • 12. "What Does the Line along the Rivers Define?": Charles Williams' Arthuriad and the Rhetoric Empire
  • — by Benjamin D. Utter

Geographies of Gender

  • 13. "Fair as Fay-woman and Fell-minded": Tolkien's Guinever
  • — by Alyssa House-Thomas
  • 14. Beatrice and Byzantium: Sex and the City in the Arthurian Works of Charles Williams
  • — by Andrew Rasmussen
  • 15. Those Kings of Lewis' Logres: Arthurian Figures as Lewisian Genders in The Hideous Strength
  • — by Benjamin Shogren

Cartographies of the Spirit

  • 16. "Servant of All": Arthurian Peregrinations in George MacDonald
  • — by Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson
  • 17. Camelot Incarnate: Arthurian Vision in the Early Plays of Charles Williams
  • — by Bradley Wells
  • 18. "Any Chalice of Consecrated Wine": The Significance of the Holy Grail in Charles Williams' War in Heaven
  • — by Suzanne Bray
  • The Acts of Unity: The Eucharistic Theology of Charles Williams' Arthurian Poetry
  • — by Andrew C. Stout
  • Conclusion—Once and Future: The Inklings, Arthur, and Prophetic Insight
  • — by Malcolm Guite
  • Bibliographies
  • — Arthurian Sources
  • — Works by the Inklings
  • — Secondary Studies
  • About the Contributions
Referencias

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