Floating Down to Camelot [SEP] narrative location
Floating Down to Camelot
Floating Down to Camelot is a campus novel by David Benedictus published in 1985 and set in Cambridge.
The title is drawn from Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shalott", in which while floating down to Camelot the Lady of Shalott apparently dies of a broken heart, caused by the rejection of Sir Lancelot.
Benedictus began to write the novel while he was a fellow commoner at Churchill College, Cambridge, and a Judith E. Wilson visiting Fellow in the University.
Principal characters.
have caused it, this catastrophic sound?"
The novel includes many quotations, not only from Tennyson but also from Thomas Hood, William Thackeray, and W. H. Auden.
Analysis.
According to one critic, ""Floating Down to Camelot" is a merciless novel about the loss of landmarks 
and the state of disorder in the contemporary English society. All the traditional sources of stability... are here ruthlessly debunked."
Another analysis suggests that "the narrator of David Benedictus's "Floating Down to