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Howard Pyle and the Chivalric Order in America: King Arthur for Children by Jeanne Fox-Friedman is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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is peculiarly American in character. PyIe was drawn to the Middle Ages because he wished to recuperate its primitive simplicity as a model for an intense and authentic experience of life. (JFF) On the face of it, America would seem an inhospitable place for a revival of interest in the medieval story of King Arthur and his knights. The Middle Ages, as symbolized by the Arthurian legend, with its feudal, classconscious, aristocratic base and its catholic adherence to faith, would appear to have held little glamour for a culrure that had forged irs democratic identity by defearing the very inheritors ofArthur himself.1 Yet, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the great revival of interest in the Middle Ages, and in King Arthur in particular, that had developed in Victorian Britain did indeed cross the Atlantic.2 ARTHURIANA his Knights was first published in serial form in St. Nicholas from
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- Author
- Jeanne Fox-Friedman
- Publisher
- Project MUSE; Southern Methodist University (ISSN 1078-6279)
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)