Reconstructing Camelot: French Romantic Medievalism and the Arthurian Tradition

Study exploring the treatment of the Arthurian legends by the French Romantic movement.

French Romanticism was a widespread movement, as apparent in the works of historians and scholars as in the works of creative writers. One of its principal characteristics was the cult of the middle ages, and this book examines the treatment of the Arthurian legends in French Romantic medievalism. Taking into account works of historiography and literary history, as well as literary texts proper, it assess...