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Article: King Arthur in America.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2001
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King Arthur in America. By ALAN LUPACK and BARBARA TEPA LUPACK. (Arthurian Studies, 41) Cambridge: Brewer. 1999. xiii + 382 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75.
Of the two terms yoked in the title of Alan and Barbara Tepa Lupack's King Arthur in America, 'King Arthur' is treated considerably more adequately than 'America'. The Lupacks set out to identify, describe, and classify the entire corpus of American Arthuriana, and surely they come close to achieving their goals. Well over three hundred literary works are considered in the book, many of course mentioned only in passing, but a number given detailed analysis. James Russell Lowell's influential (and much-ridiculed) ...