Mapping Malory: Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur [Paperback]

Medievalists are increasingly grappling with spatial studies. This timely book argues that geography is a crucial element in Sir Thomas Malory's M orte Darthur and contributors shine a light on questions of politics and genre to help readers better understand Malory's world.Introduction: Places of Romance 1. Mapping Malory's Morte : The (Physical) Place and (Narrative) Space of Cornwall; Dorsey Armstrong 2. Of Wales and Women: Guenevere's Sister and the Isles; Kenneth Hodges 3. Sir Gawain, Scotland, Orkney; Kenneth Hodges 4. Trudging toward Rome, Drifting toward Sarras; Dorsey Armstrong 5. Why Malory's Launcelot Is Not French:Region, Nation, and Political Identity; Kenneth Hodges Conclusion: Malory's Questing Beast and the Geography of the Arthurian World; Dorsey Armstrong

By tracking the complex ways that questions of space and geography inform Le Morte Darthur, Dorsey Armstrong and Kenneth Hodges have generated a striking reassessment of Malory's great work. Gracefully written, amply researched, and persuasively argued, Mapping Malory: Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur should be on the reading list of anyone seeking a fuller understanding of Arthurian literature. - Kathy Lavezzo, Associate Professor of English, The University of Iowa, USA

Through exemplary collaboration, Dorsey Armstrong and Kenneth Hodges become the first critics effectively to describe Malorian geography, an archipelagic space mapped between ambitious Arthurian centralizing and complexly hybrid localisms. Original, sophisticated, refreshing, and highly recommended. - David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and author of Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn

Author Dorsey Armstrong: Dorsey Armstrong is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, USA.Author Kenneth Hodges: Kenneth Hodges is Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA.