Arthurian Women
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Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers of the legend, modern critics and the modern women writers who have recast the Arthurian inheritance, and finally women visual artists who have used the material of the Arthurian story. All the essays concentrate interpretation on a female creator and the work. This collection contains a useful bibliography of material devoted to female characters in Arthurian literature.BooknewsIn 17 essays, most originally published in scholarly journals, women examine literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The topics include the female reader of Yvain, Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde in Gottfried von Strassburg, fairy godmothers and fairy lovers, Julia Margaret Cameron's photographic illustrations to Tennyson Idylls of the King, and a theory of lesbian narrative space in The Mists of Avalon. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Series Editor's PrefaceForeword: Seeking GuinevereAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSelect BibliographyLove, Honor, and the Exchange of Women in Yvain: Some Remarks on the Female Reader3Rewriting Men's Stories: Enide's Disruptive Mouths19"Ez ist ir g'artet von mir": Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde41Female Heroes, Heroines, and Counter-Heroes: Images of Women in Arthurian Tradition59Leaving Morgan Aside: Women, History, and Revisionism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight77Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory97"Le donne antiche e'cavalieri": Women in the Italian Arthurian Tradition115Fairy Godmothers and Fairy Lovers135From the Lake to the Fountain: Lancelot and the Fairy Lover153Nymue, The Chief Lady of the Lake in Malory's Le Morte Darthur171Arthur, Argante, and the Ideal Vision: An Exercise in Speculation and Parody191Iseult of Brittany: A New Interpretation of Matthew Arnold's Tristram and Iseult205In Defense of Guenevere229Julia Margaret Cameron's Photographic Illustrations to Alfred Tennyson's The Idylls of the King247The Woman's Eye: Four Modern Arthurian Illustrators263Looking at Elaine: Keats, Tennyson, and the Directions of the Poetic Gaze287The Figure of Guenevere in Modern Drama and Fiction307Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Subtexts: Toward a Theory of Lesbian Narrative Space in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon319The First and Last Love: Morgan le Fay and Arthur331
