Originally published: New York : Garland Pub., 1995 (Arthurian characters and themes ; vol. 2), also in series: Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1514

Includes bibliographical references (p. cv-cxviii)

Tristan : the Celtic and Oriental material re-examined / W.J. McCann -- Love and the new patriarchy : Tristan and Isolde / Leslie W. Rabine -- How lovers lie together : infidelity and fictive discourse in the Roman de Tristan / E. Jane Burns -- The representation of the lovers' death : Thomas' Tristan as open text / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner -- The glass palace in the Folie d'Oxford / Jean-Charles Payen -- Tristan the artist in Gottfried's poem / W.T.H. Jackson -- Gottfried von Strassburg : Tristan and the Arthurian tradition / William C. McDonald -- La parole amoureuse : amorous discourse in the prose Tristan / Emmanuèle Baumgartner -- Radix Amoris : the Tavola ritonda and its response to Dante's Paolo and Francesca / Donald L. Hoffman -- Malory's "Tale of Sir Tristram" : source and setting reconsidered / Dhira B. Mahoney -- Tristan in medieval art / Julia Walworth -- Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse : visionary and courtly epic / Antony H. Harrison -- "That most beautiful of dreams" : Tristram and Isoud in British art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Christine Poulson -- Wagner's Tristan und Isolde : opera as symphonic poem / Joseph Kerman -- Wagner and decadence / Raymond Furness -- "This too you ought to read" : Bédier's Roman de Tristan et Iseut / Edward J. Gallagher -- Tristram the transcendent / Frederic Yves Carpenter -- Cocteau's Tristan and Iseut : a case of overmuch respect / Stephen Maddux -- Tristan and Isolde in modern literature : l'éternel retour / Michael S. Batts