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.

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

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