This collection gathers together criticism focusing on female characters in Arthurian literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Touching on important characters from Morgan Le Fay and Guenevere to Laudine and Lunette, the essays discuss medieval and modern readers of the legend, as well as modern critics, writers and artists who have engaged with the Arthurian story.
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–Arthuriana
Fester...has done an excellent job of selecting articles to be included in the volume, balancing studies on medieval texts with those of nineteenth- and twentieth- century works, and including articles that focus on French, German, English, and Italian literature....the volume will no doubt be a useful addition to the library of many Arthurian scholars.
–Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Welcome addition to the rapidiliy expanding shelves os Arthurian criticism.
–Speculum --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
–Arthuriana
Fester...has done an excellent job of selecting articles to be included in the volume, balancing studies on medieval texts with those of nineteenth- and twentieth- century works, and including articles that focus on French, German, English, and Italian literature....the volume will no doubt be a useful addition to the library of many Arthurian scholars.
–Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Welcome addition to the rapidiliy expanding shelves os Arthurian criticism.
–Speculum --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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This article about Chretien de Troye's Yvain, or The Knight of the Lion first published in 1985, was the beginning of what ultimately became a book-length study of Old French courtly romance and its female audience. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Green Knight, Queen Isolde, Princess Isolde, Lady of Shalott, Idylls of the King, Old French, Middle Ages, Faerie Queene, The Defence, William Morris, Fisher King, Morte D'Arthur, Alfred Tennyson, Lai du Lecheor, Matthew Arnold, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Italian Arthurian, Julia Margaret Cameron, Sir Galahad, The Mists of Avalon, Columbia University Press, Iseult of Ireland, The Passing of Arthur, Malory's Morte Darthur New!
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This article about Chretien de Troye's Yvain, or The Knight of the Lion first published in 1985, was the beginning of what ultimately became a book-length study of Old French courtly romance and its female audience. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Green Knight, Queen Isolde, Princess Isolde, Lady of Shalott, Idylls of the King, Old French, Middle Ages, Faerie Queene, The Defence, William Morris, Fisher King, Morte D'Arthur, Alfred Tennyson, Lai du Lecheor, Matthew Arnold, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Italian Arthurian, Julia Margaret Cameron, Sir Galahad, The Mists of Avalon, Columbia University Press, Iseult of Ireland, The Passing of Arthur, Malory's Morte Darthur New!
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- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley on 11 pages
- The Once and Future King by T. H. White on 7 pages
- Passing of Arthur New Essays in Arthurian Tradition (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Christopher Baswell on 6 pages
- The Return from Avalon: A Study of the Arthurian Legend in Modern Fiction (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) by Raymond H. Thompson on 5 pages
- Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian by Lucy Paton on 4 pages
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- Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (Middle Ages Series) by E. Jane Burns in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Roberta L. Krueger on page 148, page 163, and page 201
- Christine de Pizan: A Casebook (Garland Medieval Casebooks) by Barbara K. Altmann on page 124, and Back Matter
- Textkritik Als Problem Der Kulturwissenschaft: Tristan-lekturen (Trends in Medieval Philology 9) (German Edition) by Martin Baisch on page 151, and Back Matter
- Topographies of Gender in Middle High German Arthurian Romance (Studies in Medieval History and Culture) by Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand on page 194, and Back Matter
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