Arthurian Literature by Women
Title | Arthurian Literature by Women PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Lupack |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 402 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Arthurian romances |
ISBN | 9780815334835 |
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Arthurian Women
Title | Arthurian Women PDF eBook |
Author | Thelma S. Fenster |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 428 |
Release | 2015-12-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134817533 |
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.
Women and Arthurian Literature
Title | Women and Arthurian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Wynne-Davies |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 2016-07-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1349244538 |
This is the first full-length study of the role of women in Arthurian literature. It covers writing from the medieval period, the Renaissance, the Victorian age and in contemporary fiction. Covering the key Arthurian texts, such as Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Tennyson's Idylls, it also investigates the less well-known works by women: Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion, Julia Margaret Cameron's illustration to Tennyson's works and, finally, the Arthurian women writers of the twentieth century.
Arthurian Women
Title | Arthurian Women PDF eBook |
Author | Thelma S. Fenster |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 423 |
Release | 2015-12-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134817460 |
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.
Rewriting the Women of Camelot
Title | Rewriting the Women of Camelot PDF eBook |
Author | Ann F. Howey |
Publisher | Praeger |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 2001-02-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Though firmly rooted in the Middle Ages, Arthurian legend has captivated readers since Caxton and Malory and continues to thrive today. By looking at contemporary reworkings of Arthuriana, this book explores the intersection of popular fiction and feminist discourses in Western society. It examines selected Arthurian novels and short stories by such women writers as Fay Sampson, Mary Stewart, Gillian Bradshaw, and Marion Zimmer Bradley to analyze the textual strategies that articulate feminist ideas. While these texts maintain continuity with established literary traditions through the replication of conventions, their reworking of women's roles encourages readers to engage liberal feminist ideology. The book first gives an overview of theories of popular fiction, feminism, and reading. It then surveys the medieval texts on which the Arthurian tradition is founded and which the contemporary texts rewrite. The chapters that follow discuss how popular contemporary women writers have reworked Arthurian legend through their narrative strategies and their representation of female character types, such as the royal woman and the magical woman.
Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend
Title | Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Garner |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 311 |
Release | 2017-12-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137597127 |
This book reveals the breadth and depth of women’s engagements with Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tracing the variety of women’s responses to the medieval revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship, and decorative gift books, it argues that differences in the kinds of Arthurian materials read by and prepared for women produced a distinct female tradition in Arthurian writing. Examining the Arthurian interests of the best-selling female poets of the day, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and uncovering those of many of their contemporaries, the Arthurian myth in the Romantic period is a vibrant location for debates about the function of romance, the role of the imagination, and women’s place in literary history.
On Arthurian Women
Title | On Arthurian Women PDF eBook |
Author | Maureen Fries |
Publisher | Scripta Mercaturae |
Total Pages | 440 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
A collection of critical essays on female characters in Arthurian literature and biographical essays on women Arthurian scholars. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and Fiona Tolhurst, literary inheritors of the feminist Arthurian legacy, these essays pay tribute to Maureen Fries, who played a ground-breaking role in re-examining traditional perceptions of the stories of King Arthur and his court as well as preconceptions about women scholars.