The Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the matter of Britain

Introduction: Present and past: the Inklings and King Arthur / Sørina Higgins

List of abbreviations

Inventory of Inklings Arthuriana

Texts and intertexts:

The matter of Logres: Arthuriana and the Inklings / Sørina Higgins

Medieval Arthurian sources for the Inklings: an overview / Holly Ordway

Mixed metaphors and hyperlinked worlds: a study of intertextuality in C.S. Lewis' Ransom Cycle / Brenton D.G. Dickieson

Houses of healing: the idea of Avalon in Inklings fiction and poetry / Charles A. Huttar

Shape and direction: human consciousness in the Inklings' mythological geographies / Christopher Gaertner

Histories past:

From myth to history and back again: Inklings Arthuriana in historical context / Yannick Imbert

"All men live by tales": Chesterton's Arthurian poems / J. Cameron Moore

The elegiac fantasy of past Christendom in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur / Cory Grewell

Histories present:

Spiritual quest in a scientific age / Jason Jewell and Chris Butynskyi

The stripped banner: reading The Fall of Arthur as a post-World War I text / Taylor Driggers

"Lilacs out of the dead land": Narnia, The Waste Land, and the world wars / Jon Hooper

"What does the line along the rivers define?": Charles Williams' Arthuriad and the rhetoric of empire / Benjamin D. Utter

Geographies of gender:

"Fair as fay-woman and fell-minded": Tolkien's Guinever / Alyssa House-Thomas

Beatrice and Byzantium: sex and the city in the Arthurian works of Charles Williams / Andrew Rasmussen

Those kings of Lewis' Logres: Arthurian figures as Lewisian gender in That Hideous Strength / Banjamin Shogren

Cartographies of the spirit:

"Servant of all": Arthurian peregrinations in George MacDonald / Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson

Camelot incarnate: Arthurian vision in the early plays of Charles Williams / Bradley Wells

:Any chalice of consecrated wine": the significance of the holy grail in Charles Williams' War in Heaven / Suzanne Bray

The acts of unity: the Eucharistic theology of Charles Williams' Arthurian poetry / Andrew C. Stout

Conclusion: Once and future: the Inklings, Arthur, and prophetic insight / Malcolm Guite.