Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood - Image 1

£180.00

Oxford University Press Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood

Name: Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 180.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Folklore

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£180 today · previous high £180 · all-time low £161

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 52 days · 52 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 52 days • 5 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £161 (25 days, 48.1%)

Price range: £161 - £180

Price levels: 5 different prices over 52 days

Description

Scholars have become increasingly interested in how modern national consciousness comes into being through fictional narratives. Literature is of particular importance to this process, for it is responsible for tracing the nations evolution through glorious tales of its history. In nineteenth-century Britain, the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood played an important role in construction of contemporary national identity. These two legends provide excellent windows through which to view British culture, because they provide very different perspectives. King Arthur and Robin Hood have traditionally been diametrically opposed in terms of their ideological orientation. The former is a king, a man at the pinnacle of the social and political hierarchy, whereas the latter is an outlaw, and is therefore completely outside conventional hierarchical structures. The fact that two such different figures could simultaneously function as British national heroes suggests that nineteenth-century British nationalism did not represent a single set of values and ideas, but rather that it was forced to assimilate a variety of competing points of view.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 019820728X
Category: Books > Subjects > Mind, Body & Spirit > Mythology > Folklore
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 02 March 2000
Listed Since: 15 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Imagining Robin Hood: The Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context

Reading Robin Hood: Content, Form and Reception in the Outlaw Myth (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

Robin Hood: An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism

Robin Hood: The Shaping of the Legend: 92 (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)

The Early Plays of Robin Hood

Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces: Media, Performance, and Other New Directions (Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture)

Historians on Robin Hood

Routledge - The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Literature

Routledge Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon

The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature: From Fen to Greenwood (Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture)

Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560, Texts, Contexts, and Ideology

In Strange Countries: Middle English Literature and its Afterlife: Essays in Memory of J. J. Anderson (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

Arthurian Legend in the Seventeenth Century: 02 (Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature)

Outlaws in Medieval and Early Modern England: Crime, Government and Society, c.1066–c.1600

Medieval Literature and Social Politics: Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts (Variorum Collected Studies)

King Arthur: Myth-Making and History

Boland Adult Forest Hunter Costume - Robin Hood Set

The Outlaws of Medieval Legend

Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain (The Middle Ages Series)

Routledge Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces - Academic Book

Smiffys Robin Hood Costume, Green Trousers, Shirt, Belt, Arrow Holder & Boot Covers, Historical Fancy Dress, Adult Dress Up Costumes

Early Modern Britain's Relationship to Its Past: The Historiographical Fortunes of the Legends of Brute, Albina, and Scota (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture)

King Arthur: Myth-Making and History

Arthurian Literature XXVII: 27