The Arctic Arthur

Arthur's northern adventures are little recognized. Early hints and seventeenth-century developments led in the later 1700s to the northern Gothic Arthur of Hole, Betham, and Thelwall. More conservative was the king's nineteenth-century representation by Milman; and his apotheosis, and con...

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Published in:Arthuriana
Main Author: Knight, Stephen
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Project MUSE 2011
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/art.2011.0022
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Summary:Arthur's northern adventures are little recognized. Early hints and seventeenth-century developments led in the later 1700s to the northern Gothic Arthur of Hole, Betham, and Thelwall. More conservative was the king's nineteenth-century representation by Milman; and his apotheosis, and conclusion, came in the arctic adventurer of Bulwer Lytton's King Arthur .