ENGL 4173/5613 X1*
“Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot: The Victorian Ideal of Camelot”
Fall Term: MA–Honours Blended Seminar
Instructor: Dr. Patricia Rigg
Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot: The Victorian Ideal of Camelot" gives us an opportunity to discuss the broad cultural concepts of nationalism, individualism, and feminism in the tightly constructed patriarchal society of Victorian England. We will look at some of the ekphrastic art—poetry and painting—that reflects the explosion of the legend of King Arthur in the nineteenth century, as well as contemporary films that shed light on our own intersection with the principles of Arthurian legend. Painters such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and Gustave Doré, as well as the nineteenth-century photographer Margaret Cameron, provide a rich visual “metatext” on the poetry.