Reclamation Of A Queen, Vol. 44
The Reclamation of a Queen seeks new approaches to Guinevere's shadowed, negative image in the Arthurian legends. There the Queen was generally perceived as either a seemingly passive object of men's desires or as a destructive temptress. Barbara Ann Gordon-Wise asserts that Guinevere's treatment in every historical period has been influenced by basic sociological and ideological pressures and has been conditioned by a traditionally masculine interpretation of women. Recent revisionist...
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The evolution of the portrayal of Queen Guinevere from the largely negative image beginning in the Middle Ages to the revisionist treatments of modern fantasy writers is studied from a Jungian-feminist perspective.
ChronologyIntroductionJung and the FeminineThe Terrible MotherThe SeductressThe WitchOther GuineveresRevisionist GuineveresMarion Zimmer BradleyConclusionBibliographyIndex
