Women and Arthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333447109)

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.

Author: Marion Wynne-Davies
ISBN-10: 0333447107
ISBN-13: 9780333447109
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/19/1996
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d