LEADER 05425nam 2200769 450 001 9910788301003321 005 20210427014734.0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812292541 035 $a(CKB)2670000000608441 035 $a(EBL)3442514 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001464273 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11819420 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001464273 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11453992 035 $a(PQKB)10647178 035 $a(OCoLC)908071415 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46223 035 $a(DE-B1597)463544 035 $a(OCoLC)1013947590 035 $a(OCoLC)940674009 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812292541 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442514 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11041572 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL763550 035 $a(OCoLC)932313427 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442514 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000608441 100 $a20150420h20012001 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSovereign fantasies $eArthurian romance and the making of Britain /$fPatricia Clare Ingham 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2001. 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 225 1 $aMiddle Ages Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-9254-5 311 0 $a0-8122-3600-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tPart I: The Matter of Britain --$t1. Arthurian Imagination and the "Makyng" of History --$t2. Arthurian Futurism and British Destiny --$tPart II: Romancing the Throne --$t3. Disavowing Romance: Colonial Loss and Stones of the Past --$t4. "In Contrayez Straunge": Sovereign Rivals, Fantasies of Gender, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight --$t5. Dangerous Liaisons: Disloyalty, Adultery, and the Tragedy of Romance --$tPart III. Insular Losses --$t6. Military Intimacies: The Pleasures and Pains of Conquest --$t7. "Necessary" Losses: Royal Death and English Remembrance --$tAfterword: Lost Books --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aDuring 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 and gender theory. Ingham argues that late medieval English Arthurian romance has broad cultural ambitions, offering a fantasy of insular union as an "imagined community" of British sovereignty. The Arthurian legends offer a means to explore England's historical indebtedness to and intimacies with Celtic culture, allowing nobles to repudiate their dynastic ties to France and claim themselves heirs to an insular heritage. Yet these traditions also provided a means to critique English conquest, elaborating the problems of centralized sovereignty and the suffering produced by chivalric culture. Texts such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and Caxton's edition of Malory's Morte Darthur provide what she terms a "sovereign fantasy" for Britain. That is, Arthurian romance offers a cultural means to explore broad political contestations over British identity and heritage while also detailing the poignant complications and losses that belonging to such a community poses to particular regions and subjects. These contestations and complications emerge in exactly those aspects of the tales usually read as fantasy-for example, in the narratives of Arthur's losses, in the prophecies of his return, and in tales that dwell on death, exotic strangeness, uncanny magic, gender, and sexuality. Ingham's study suggests the nuances of the insular identity that is emphasized in this body of literature. Sovereign Fantasies shows the significance, rather than the irrelevance, of medieval dynastic motifs to projects of national unification, arguing that medieval studies can contribute to our understanding of national formations in part by marking the losses produced by union. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aArthurian romances$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and history$zGreat Britain$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aHistorical fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, British, in literature 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aArthurian romances$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aHistorical fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, British, in literature. 676 $a809/.93351 700 $aIngham$b Patricia Clare$f1958-$01475909 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788301003321 996 $aSovereign fantasies$93690298 997 $aUNINA