Geoffrey of Monmouth and J. R. R. Tolkien : myth-making and national identity in the twelfth and twentieth centuries

Phelpstead, Carl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7835-5600 2022. Geoffrey of Monmouth and J. R. R. Tolkien : myth-making and national identity in the twelfth and twentieth centuries. Vasconcelos, Filomena, Botelho, Ines and Malato, Maria Luísa, eds. Worlds made of Heroes: a Tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien, Porto, Portugal: Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, pp. 81-104.

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Abstract

The twelfth-century account of the early history of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, his Historia regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), introduced the stories of King Lear and Cymbeline to the world and provided the seminal early account of King Arthur. The parallels between Geoffrey’s work and that of J. R. R. Tolkien seem to me now to be even more striking than when I wrote that paragraph in Tolkien and Wales. This essay explores in greater depth and more detail than was possible in my book the ways in which Geoffrey and Tolkien turned to the making of myth in order to address contemporary concerns around the issue of national identity.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras
ISBN:	9789899082243
Last Modified:	10 Nov 2022 11:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/151581

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