... contemporaries. DUKE UNIVERSITY I. B. HOLLEY, JR. America and the Patterns of Chivalry. By John Fraser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. vii, 301. $19.95. John Fraser s America and the Patterns of Chivalry is stimulating and challenging, even if flawed. Fraser attempts to rescue a complex...

...John Halperin Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman . By Girouard Mark . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1981 . Pp. 312 . $35.00 . Book Reviews 219 The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English...

...Ann Douglas 456 The South Atlantic Quarterly Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Woman s Campaign Against Lynching. By Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Pp. x, 373. $14.95. In the preface to this subtle and skillfully researched study, Hall tells us...

.... Was it Cervantes s purpose merely to amuse us with the antics of a madman unable to read aright the face of reality? Was it to satirize the novels of chivalry and thus destroy their vogue, as Cervantes himself so often said? Or was this only a pretext imagined after the book was largely written, a device behind...

...Charles Moorman Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 The Philosophical Knights of The Canterbury Tales Charles Moorman It is impossible to date with any precision the decline of chivalry. Even the most learned of its students disagree as to the time and place of its greatest...

... with evident relish from a letter which a Confederate deserter wrote to Jeffer­ son Davis. The soldier wrote that he was happy to be gazing for the last time upon our holy flag that symbol and sign of an adored trinity cotton, niggers, and chivalry. Dr. Osterweis likewise finds that the civil­ ization...

..., serving others who would prefer to serve themselves, driving men gallantly to charge in the wrong direction, and the rest of it. English chivalry received a number ofjolts in the Boer War and a death-blow in the Great War, which was entered into under its ideals during much of the nineteenth century...

... allusions to romances in Milton s epics {Paradise Lost, 11.579-87, and Paradise Regained, 11.35961, for example). However, almost every division of Samson uses either the ghost of chivalry, the romance, or its heir, the code of honor.2 Miss Buchanan, a Miltonist, is associate professor of English...

... of the nonchalant comic narrator of Modern Chivalry. With a chapter on each of his five major Revolutionary era writers, Elliott provides fresh overviews of their literary careers and focuses on elements which illuminate their conflicts. Timothy Dwight, hermit-philosopher-educator, de­ veloped in The Friend series...

..., like suckling colts, was accepted as a matter of course, a part of the mise en scene. One of the most remarkable survivals of the age of chivalry was to be found in the South. I refer to the tournament. This grand, old, chivalric sport was still a popular pastime in the South up to the last decade...

... mother, an accomplished hostess, entertained frequently and gra­ ciously; his father showed him the meaning of chivalry and cour­ tesy, adherence to the principle of noblesse oblige and a sense of honor that was paramount above all. Chivalry, courtesy, and the code of honor were the accoutrements...

... the chivalry of men had given to her sex that protection against which her life was one continued protest (p. 717). In North America (1862) he had addressed himself specifi­ cally to this question. The happy privileges with which women are at present blessed, Trollope wrote, have come to them from...

... chivalry Be knightly honors paid: For nobler than the sword s shall be The sickle s accolade. Peaceable enough, surely, and tame enough for the man who had thundered at Virginia and branded the great Webster as with fire. Whittier was a man of peace, but his anti-slavery poems are true war poems, full...

... of 1484 of The Order of Chivalry. Caxton s translation had been made from the fifteenth century French translation of Ramon Lull s Libre del orde d Cavaleria. Morris had F. S. Ellis make a prose translation of the French poem, L Ordene de Chevalerie, which had been the thirteenth century original...

... must have reached Southern homes where books were ordered direct from London. Strutt was published in 1801, and between 1815 and 1820 Malory s Morte d?Arthur appeared in three editions. A Fife of Bayard ap­ peared in 1825, and in 1826 Mill s History of Chivalry. A Froissart and His Times and Stories...

... UNIVERSITY I. B. HOLLEY, JR. America and the Patterns of Chivalry. By John Fraser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. vii, 301. $19.95. John Fraser s America and the Patterns of Chivalry is stimulating and challenging, even if flawed. Fraser attempts to rescue a complex and morally defensible...

... to parody. Such comedy lent support to the standard censorious observa­ tions on dueling. Readers and writers who knew the raw turbulence of the newer settlements and who had seen village and backwoods chivalry through comic lenses might come to scrutinize the entire chivalric conception. Comic writers...

... fathers and grandfathers harried her with fire and sword. Then our sympathetic interest was roused further, and we were shown the South as a charming American Quebec, the home of Southern Gentlemen, Southern Courtesy, Southern Chivalry, Southern Hospitality, etc., etc. 346 The South Atlantic Quarterly All...

..., but books of fayned chivalrie, wherein a man by redinge, shuld be led to none other ends, but only to manslaughter and baudrye. Yf any man suppose they were good enough to passe the time The Humanist Rejection of Romance 299 with al, he is deceyved. For surelye vayne woordes doo worke no smal thinge...

... had keyed himself to holiday pitch with the aid of ardent spirits. Beginning with some such address as Sir Knights and Fair Ladies, the orator made frequent reference to the tilting matches and jousts of the Middle Ages and praised the ideals of chivalry, speaking in an ornate, flowery style...