A once and future king in the political imagination of eighteenth-century Britain

Conference item

This conference paper sought to illustrate that the figure of King Arthur was not as unknown to eighteenth-century writers as scholarship had previously understood, and argues that the eighteenth-century Arthur can be found in the context of political literature underpinned by a developing antiquarian appreciation of medieval sources.

Authors: Kilburn, M

• Publication status: Not published
• Peer review status: Not peer reviewed
• Publication date: 2004-08-01
• Edition: Author's Original
• Language: English
• Keywords: Thomas Warton; Joseph Warton; eighteenth-century history; King Arthur; Arthur; Arthurian; history; English literature
• Subjects: History; English Language and Literature; History of Britain and Europe; Early modern English literature (1550 - 1780); Eighteenth-Century Britain and Europe