| Description |
lxxvii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"Previously published as vol. 1499 in the Garland reference library of the humanities"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Love, honor, and the exchange of women in Yvain : some remarks on the female reader / Roberta L. Krueger -- Rewriting men's stories : Enide's disruptive mouths / E. Jane Burns -- "Ez ist ir g'artet von mir" : Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde / Ann Marie Rasmussen -- Female heroes, heroines, and counter-heroes : images of women in Arthurian tradition / Maureen Fries -- Leaving Morgan aside : women, history, and revisionism in Sir Gawain and the green knight / Sheila Fisher -- Enchanted ground : the feminine subtext in Malory / Geraldine Heng -- "Le Donne Antiche e'cavalieri" : women in the Italian Arthurian tradition / Regina Psaki -- Fairy godmothers and fairy lovers / Laurence Harf-Lancner -- From the lake to the fountain : Lancelot and the fairy lover / Anne Berthelot -- Nymue, the chief lady of the lake in Malory's Le Morte dArthur / Sue Ellen Holbrook -- Arthur, Argante, and the ideal vision : an exercise in speculation and parody / Judith H. Anderson -- Iseult of Brittany : a new interpretation of Matthew Arnold's Tristram and Iseult / Barbara Fass Leavy -- In defense of Guenevere / Carole Silver -- Julia Margaret Cameron's photographic illustrations to Alfred Tennyson's The Idylls of the king / Joanne Lukitsh -- The Woman's eye : four modern Arthurian illustrators / Muriel Whitaker -- Looking at Elaine : Keats, Tennyson, and the directions of the poetic gaze / Constance W. Hassett and James Richardson -- The figure of Guenevere in modern drama and fiction / Elisabeth Brewer -- Heterosexual plots and lesbian subtexts : toward a theory of lesbian narrative space in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon / Marilyn R. Farwell -- The First and last love : Morgan le Fay and Arthur / Raymond H. Thompson. |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Arthurian romances -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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| Added Author |
Fenster, Thelma S.
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| ISBN |
0415928893 paperback |
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9780415928892 paperback |
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