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The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea to leave. Not only did it inspire quite separate works; his own unfinished poem was continued and finally completed by no fewer than four other writers. The Complete Story of the Grail is the first ever translation of the whole of the rich and compelling body of tales contained in Chrétien's poem and its four Continuations, which are finally attracting the scholarly attention they deserve. Besides Chrétien's original text, there are the anonymous First Continuation (translated here in its fullest version), the Second Continuation attributed to Wauchier de Denain, and the intriguing Third and Fourth Continuations - probably written simultaneously, with no knowledge of each other's work - by Manessier and Gerbert de Montreuil. Two other poets were drawn to create preludes explaining the background to Chrétien's story, and translated here also are their works: The Elucidation Prologue and Bliocadran. Only in this, The Story of the Grail's complete form, can the reader appreciate the narrative skill and invention of the medieval poets and their surprising responses to Chrétien's theme - not least their crucial focus on the knight as a crusader. Equally, Chrétien's original poem was almost always copied in conjunction with one or more of the Continuations, so this translation represents how most medieval readers would have encountered it. Nigel Bryant's previous translations from Medieval French include Perlesvaus - the High Book of the Grail, Robert de Boron's trilogy Merlin and the Grail, the Medieval Romance of Alexander, The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel and Perceforest.

Arthurian romances --- History and criticism. --- Perceval (Legendary character) --- Grail --- Arthurian romances. --- Legends. --- Chrétien, --- Romances --- Arthurian Legend. --- Chrétien de Troyes. --- Continuations. --- Gerbert de Montreuil. --- Grail. --- Knights. --- Manessier. --- Medieval Poem. --- Nigel Bryant. --- Perceval. --- Rich Tales. --- Unresolved Story.

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Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke and play upon emotion in the audiences which heard these texts performed or read. The presentation and depiction of emotion in the single most prominent and influential story matter of the Middle Ages, the Arthurian legend, is the subject of this volume. Covering texts written in English, French, Dutch, German, Latin and Norwegian, the essays presented here explore notions of embodiment, the affective quality of the construction of mind, and the intermediary role of the voice as both an embodied and consciously articulating emotion.

Frank Brandsma teaches Comparative Literature (Middle Ages) at Utrecht University; Carolyne Larrington is a Fellow in medieval English at St John's College, Oxford; Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Durham.

Contributors: Anne Baden-Daintree, Frank Brandsma, Helen Cooper, Anatole Pierre Fuksas, Jane Gilbert, Carolyne Larrington, Andrew Lynch, Raluca Radulescu, Sif Rikhardsdottir, Corinne Saunders,

Arthurian romances --- English literature --- Emotions in literature --- History and criticism --- Emotions in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Thematology --- Old English literature --- Affective Quality. --- Arthurian Literature. --- Arthurian legend. --- Audiences. --- Carolyne Larrington. --- Characters. --- Corinne Saunders. --- Embodiment. --- Emotions. --- Frank Brandsma. --- Literary Texts. --- Medieval. --- Middle Ages. --- Mind. --- Voice. --- affective quality. --- embodiment. --- emotion. --- literary analysis. --- literary texts. --- medieval literature. --- voice.

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The legend of Arthur has been a source of fascination for writers and artists in English since the fifteenth century, when Thomas Malory drew together for the first time in English a variety of Arthurian stories from a number of sources to form the Morte Darthur. It increased in popularity during the Victorian era, when after Tennyson's treatment of the legend, not only authors and dramatists, but painters, musicians, and film-makers found a source of inspiration in the Arthurian material.
This interdisciplinary, annotated bibliography lists the Arthurian legend in modern English-language fiction, from 1500 to 2000, including literary texts, film, television, music, visual art, and games. It will prove an invaluable source of reference for students of literary and visual arts, general readers, collectors, librarians, and cultural historians--indeed, by anyone interested in the history of the ways in which Camelot has figured in post-medieval English-speaking cultures.

ANN F. HOWEY is Assistant Professor at Brock University, Canada; STEPHEN R. REIMER is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada

Arthurian romances --- Arthur, --- In literature --- 82-39 --- Graallegende; Arthurroman --- 82-39 Graallegende; Arthurroman --- English literature --- Authors, English --- Arturus, --- Artur, --- Arturo, --- Artus, --- Artù, --- Artús, --- Артур, --- Arzhur, --- Artuš, --- Αρθούρος, --- Arthouros, --- Arthur Pendragon --- Pendragon, Arthur --- Adha, --- 아서, --- 아서 왕 --- Asŏ, --- Asŏ Wang --- ארתור, --- Arthur Gernow --- Arthurus, --- Arturius, --- Arturs, --- Artūras, --- Artúr, --- アーサー, --- アーサー王 --- Āsā-ō --- Āsā, --- Èrthu, --- Arthwys, --- Art. --- Arthurian Legend. --- Camelot. --- English-Speaking Cultures. --- Film-Makers. --- Literary Texts. --- Modern Fiction. --- Music. --- Musicians. --- Painters. --- Television. --- Tennyson. --- Victorian Era.

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An examination of the numerous adaptations of Malory's Morte Darthur for children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Arthurian romances --- Adaptations. --- History and criticism. --- Malory, Thomas, --- Mėlori, Tomas, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Morte d'Arthur (Malory, Thomas, Sir) --- Birth, life, and acts of King Arthur (Malory, Thomas, Sir) --- Caxton's Malory (Malory, Thomas, Sir) --- Sir Thomas Malory's Le morte d'Arthur (Malory, Thomas, Sir) --- Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur (Malory, Thomas, Sir) --- Arthurian Legend. --- British and American Literature. --- Child Psychology. --- Juvenile Audience. --- King Arthur. --- Malory's Morte Darthur. --- University of Oslo. --- Victorian Medievalism.

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A Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain's most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as "one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race." The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks." And so he does. Emerging as "The Boss," he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot-with unexpected results.

Knights and knighthood --- Americans --- Arthurian romances --- Time travel --- Knighthood --- Civilization, Medieval --- Nobility --- Chivalry --- Heraldry --- Orders of knighthood and chivalry --- Arthur, --- Arturus, --- Artur, --- Arturo, --- Artus, --- Artù, --- Artús, --- Артур, --- Arzhur, --- Artuš, --- Αρθούρος, --- Arthouros, --- Arthur Pendragon --- Pendragon, Arthur --- Adha, --- 아서, --- 아서 왕 --- Asŏ, --- Asŏ Wang --- ארתור, --- Arthur Gernow --- Arthurus, --- Arturius, --- Arturs, --- Artūras, --- Artúr, --- アーサー, --- アーサー王 --- Āsā-ō --- Āsā, --- Èrthu, --- Arthwys, --- Great Britain --- 19th century. --- adaptation. --- adventure. --- american lit. --- american literature. --- arthurian legend. --- arthurian. --- arthuriana. --- britain. --- classic. --- comedy. --- england. --- fiction. --- funny. --- historical fiction. --- humor. --- king arthur. --- literary fiction. --- medieval. --- modern camelot. --- modern king arthur. --- mythology. --- round table. --- satire. --- social commentary. --- speculative fiction. --- time travel. --- yankee.