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Tennyson and the Return of King Arthur

This chapter—which is informed by cultural geographers’ concern for ‘recuperating the spatial practices’ that may be detected within literary texts—discusses an architecture of ‘situated objects’ across literary texts that were produced as part of the Victorian Arthurian revival. It investigates the extent to which Arthurian objects are exoticized and rendered part of fantastical (and actual) landscapes (taking issue with ‘thing theory’). It also considers how in some Arthurian literary reworkings, the Arthurian artefact may not obviously return at all, or be recycled as `ordinary’, in a more familiar, domesticized setting. The chapter argues that Victorian Arthurian texts become an assemblage of codified objects, with those objects referencing and reinterpreting earlier sources of the Arthurian legend, whilst also pointing to complex social change and material cultural encounters.