Author:
Wynne-Davies, Marion.
Imprint:New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Descriptionviii, 237 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:'The elf-queene, with hir joly compaignye': Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale. - 'And purz wyles of wymmen be wonen to sorze': Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. - 'Am I nat an erthely woman?': Malory's Morte Darthur. - 'Whether dreames delude, or true it were': female presence in Spenser's The Faerie Queene. - 'I will, Lord, while I can': Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion. - 'Women dressed in many hues': Tennyson's stereoscopic vision in the Idylls of Geraint and Enid. - 'Thro' the brilliant eye': Julia Margaret Cameron's illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls. - 'An arm clothed in white samite': twentieth-century women writers and the Arthurian legends.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-233) and index.
Note:Recommended in Best Books for Academic Libraries
