Arthurian Women: A Casebook

by Fenster,Thelma S.

• ISBN13: 9780415928892
• ISBN10: 0415928893
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-08-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection gathers recent 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.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	xi
Norris J. Lacy
Foreword: Seeking Guinevere	xiii
Sharan Newman
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	xvii
Thelma S. Fenster
Select Bibliography	lxv
RESISTING TALES
Love, Honor, and the Exchange of Women In Yvain: Some Remarks on the Female Reader	3	(16)
Roberta L. Krueger
Rewriting Men's Stories: Enide's Disruptive Mouths	19	(22)
E. Jane Burns
``Ez Ist ir G'artet von Mir'': Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde In Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde	41	(18)
Ann Marie Rasmussen
Female Heroes, Heroines, and Counter-Heroes: Images of Women in Arthurian Tradition	59	(18)
Maureen Fries
STORY, GENDER, AND CULTURE
Leaving Morgan Aside: Women, History, and Revisionism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	77	(20)
Sheila Fisher
Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory	97	(18)
Geraldine Heng
``Le Donne Antiche E' Cavalieri'': Women in The Italian Arthurian Tradition	115	(20)
Regina Psaki
FAIRIES' TALES
Fairy Godmothers and Fairy Lovers	135	(18)
Laurence Harf-Lancner
From the Lake to the Fountain: Lancelot and the Fairy Lover	153	(18)
Anne Berthelot
Nymue, the Chief Lady of the Lake in Malory's Le Morte Darthur	171	(20)
Sue Ellen Holbrook
Arthur, Argante, and the Ideal Vision: An Exercise in Speculation and Parody	191	(14)
Judith H. Anderson
ISEULT AND GUENEVERE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Iseult of Brittany: A New Interpretation of Matthew Arnold's Tristram and Iseult	205	(24)
Barbara Fass Leavy
In Defense of Guenevere	229	(18)
Carole Silver
ANOTHER LOOK
Julia Margaret Cameron's Photographic Illustrations to Alfred Tennyson's The Idylls of the King	247	(16)
Joanne Lukitsh
The Woman's Eye: Four Modern Arthurian Illustrators	263	(24)
Muriel Whitaker
Looking at Elaine: Keats, Tennyson, and The Directions of the Poetic Gaze	287	(20)
Constance W. Hassett
James Richardson
REVISIONARY TALES: GUENEVERE AND MORGAN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Figure of Guenevere In Modern Drama And Fiction	307	(12)
Elisabeth Brewer
Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Subtexts: Toward A Theory Of Lesbian Narrative Space In Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon	319	(12)
Marilyn R. Farwell
The First and Last Love: Morgan Le Fay and Arthur	331
Raymond H. Thompson