On Arthurian women : essays in memory of Maureen Fries

On Arthurian women : essays in memory of Maureen Fries / edited by Bonnie Wheeler and Fiona Tolhurst.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fries, Maureen, Wheeler, Bonnie, 1944-, Tolhurst, Fiona
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dallas, TX : Scriptorium Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Arthurian romances > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Women scholars > Biography.
Scholars, Medieval > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Maureen Fries : Arthurienne extraordinaire / Bonnie Wheeler and Fiona Tolhurst
  • Part I. On Arthurian women
  • Guenevere: Guenevere's tears in the alliterative Morte Arthure : doubly wife, doubly mother, doubly damned / Rebecca S. Beal. Malory's Guenevere : a 'trew lover' / Beverly Kennedy. Malory's Guenevere : 'A woman who had grown a soul' / Edward Donald Kennedy.
  • Elaines: Gilding the lily (maid) : Elaine of Astolat / James Noble. Malory's other(ed) Elaine / Elizabeth S. Sklar. Sorceresses: Elemental goddesses : Nymue, the chief Lady of the Lake, and her sisters / Sue Ellen Holbrook. From Niniane to Nimüe : demonizing the Lady of the Lake / Anne Berthelot
  • Arthur's sisters: Morgan le Fay at Hautdesert / Michael W. Twomey. The hag of Castle Hautdesert : the celtic Sheela-na-gig and the Auncian in Sir Gawain and the green knight / Lorraine Kochanske Stock. Malory's Morgause / Dorsey Armstrong
  • The Arthurian lady: Arthurian wonder women : the tread of Olwen / Jo Goyne. Chrétien's Enide : heroine or female hero? / Margaret Jewett Burland. Belcane : other as another in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival / Susann T. Samples
  • Arthurian bad girls? The beaten path : Lancelot's amorous adventure at the fountain in Le chevalier de la Charette / Ellen L. Friedrich. Lyonet, Lunete, and Laudine : carnivalesque Arthurian women / Melanie McGarrahan Gibson. A bad girl will love you to death : excessive love in the Sranzaic Morte Arthur and Malory / Janet Knepper. Mallory's Lancelot and the Lady Huntress / Maud McInerney. Merlin's mother in the Chronicles / Charlotte A.T. Wulf
  • The modern gaze: Hard(l)y Tristan / Donald L. Hoffman. 'No - I am out - I am out of my tower and my wits' : the Lady of Shalott in A.S. Byatt's Possession / Kathleen Coyne Kelly. Women illustrators of the Arthurian legends / Alan Lupack. A note on Maureen Fries, Morgan le Fay, and Ugo Falena's 1911 film Tristano e Isotta / Kevin J. Harty
  • Part II. On women Arthurians. The 'Mabinogion' and Lady Charlotte Guest (1812-1895) / Rachel Bromwich. Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850-1928) / Norris J. Lacy. The Loomis ladies : Gertrude Schoepperle Loomis (1882-1921), Laura Hibbard Loomis (1883-1960), Dorothy Bethurum Loomis (1897-1987) / Henry Hall Peyton III. The quickening force : Vida Dutton Scudder (1861-1954) and Malory's Le Morte Darthur / Sue Ellen Holbrook. The girl from Cumbria : a tribute to Rachel Bromwich / Chris Grooms. Helaine Newstead : 'a giant in her field' / Sigmund Eisner. How I became (and continue to be) an Arthurian woman scholar / Elspeth Kennedy. From Holocaust survivor to Arthurian scholar / Fanni Bogdanow. Valerie Lagorio / Martin B. Schichtman. Maureen Fries : teacher, scholar, friend / Donald L. Hoffman.

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