Arthurian Women

Thelma S. Fenster, Norris J. Lacy

• Foreword, Seeking Guinevere, Sharan Newman * Introduction, Thelma S. Fenster * Love, Honor, and the Exchange of Women in Yvain: Some Remarks on the Female Reader, Roberta L. Krueger * Rewriting Men's Stories: Enide's Disruptive Mouths, E. Jane Burns * ez ist ir g'artet von mir: Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde, Ann-Marie Rasmussen * Female Heroes, Heroines, and Counter-Heroes, Maureen Fries * Leaving Morgan Aside: Women, History, and Revisionism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher * Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory, Geraldine Heng * Le donne antiche e' cavalieri: Arthurian Women in the Italian Tradition, Regina Psaki * Fairy Godmothers and Fairy Lovers, Laurence Harf-Lancer * Chief Lady of the Lake in Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, Sue Ellen Holbrook * Arthur, Argante, and the Ideal Vision: An Exercise in Speculation and Parody,Judith, H. Anderson * In Defense of Guenevere, Carole Silver * Iseult of Brittany: A New Interpretation of Matthew Arnold's Tristram and Iseult, Barbara Fass Leavy * Looking at Elaine: Keats, Tennyson, and the Directions of the Poetic Gaze, Constance Hassett and James Richardson * Julia Margaret Cameron's Photographic Illustrations to Alfred Tennyson's The Idylls of the King, Joanne Lukitsh * The Woman's Eye: Four Modern Arthurian Illustrators, Muriel Whitaker * Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Subtexts: Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, Marilyn Farwell * The First and Last Love: Morgan le Fay and Arthur, Raymond Thompson

"A useful and interesting collection." -- 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