| 书目名称 | Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend | | 副标题 | The Quest for Knowle | | 编辑 | Katie Garner | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Adds previously unrecorded texts by women to the Arthurian canon.Traces in new detail the Arthurian sources Romantic women writers read and how they shaped their imaginative responses.Connects Victori | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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. . | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | Arthurian legend; women writers; Romantic writing; nineteenth century literature; Tennyson; British and I | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59712-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-349-95566-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-59712-0 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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,Introduction, |
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Garner argues that Romantic women writers were active participants in the burgeoning Arthurian revival and that gendered patterns of access to Arthurian texts, scholarship, and antiquarian networks influenced what and how they wrote about Arthur. A summary of the major medieval Arthurian texts available to Romantic readers is provided, along with an overview of women’s contributions to the Arthurian tradition before 1770, and short summaries of the individual book chapters on Gothic verse, travel writing, scholarship, and annual and gift-book contributions.
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,Arthuriana for the ‘Fair Sex’: Gender Politics and the Reception of Romance, |
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In the Romantic period, Arthurian material was bowdlerised, repackaged, and reframed for female readers on a new scale and across a variety of print media. This chapter introduces a new portrait of Guinevere in . . to illustrate how the myth was reshaped for moralising purposes and to fit eighteenth-century models of sensibility. Clara Reeve and Susannah Dobson’s early attempts to promote Arthurian romance to female readers demonstrate how Arthurian material was considered to be outside the boundaries of acceptable female knowledge. Particular attention is given to a selection of Thomas Percy’s Arthurian ballads produced for young women, while the closing discussion examines how contemporary gender debates influenced the marketing of Romantic editions of Malory’s .
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,Haunting Beginnings: Women’s Gothic Verse and King Arthur, |
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A Gothic aesthetic unites many of the earliest Arthurian productions by women. Garner suggests that the late eighteenth-century fashion for Gothic writing provided a discourse and a set of motifs that writers such as Matilda Betham, Elizabeth Smith, Anne Bannerman, and Anna Jane Vardill could use to express their antiquarian interests in Arthur. Much Gothic writing can be superficial and sensational in its use of medieval trappings, but Arthurian Gothic poems by women often challenge this assumption through their use of extensive annotations.
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,Next Steps: Recovering the Arthurian Past in Women’s Travel and Topographical Writing, |
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Women’s travel writing and topographical poetry provided rich ground for Arthurian allusions in the Romantic period. By reading the travel narrative as a malleable literary space, Garner argues that its flexible boundaries allowed women to offer antiquarian assessments of Arthurian sites without encountering hostility from critics. A range of travel texts and topographical poetry by Mary Morgan, Anne Wilson, Louisa Stuart Costello, Felicia Hemans, Eleanor Anne Porden, Anna Sawyer, and Mary Russell Mitford is examined. As part of its attention to places and spaces, Garner also addresses the nationalist impulse at stake in treatments of the Arthurian myth and concludes that English women poets ultimately failed to appropriate the legend successfully in their verse.
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,The Rise of the Female Arthurianist: Satire and Scholarship, |
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This chapter demonstrates how gradual changes in women’s access to manuscript libraries and antiquarian debates enabled them to enter the field of Arthurian scholarship in the 1830s. Garner also suggests that the romance scholarship of George Ellis was a particularly influential model for emerging female medievalists. She introduces the Arthurian forgeries and academic satires of Anna Jane Vardill, and traces the development of Arthurian translations by women from Louisa Stuart Costello’s . to Lady Charlotte Guest’s translation of Welsh Arthurian romances in ..
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,A Fashionable Fantasy: Arthur in the Annuals, |
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The decorative literary annuals and gift books that emerged in the 1820s provided an accessible home for women’s Arthurian poetry and cultivated a pictorial aesthetic that would come to dominate much nineteenth-century medievalist verse. Garner examines poems by Louisa Stuart Costello, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Howitt, and Caroline Norton in their original annual contexts, and argues that the annuals ushered in a new fashion for individual poems about the Arthurian legend’s female characters. Particular attention is paid to Arthurian poems in ., ., ., and .. The chapter ends by arguing that Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’ should be read in the context of annual Arthuriana and earlier poems on the subject by his female contemporaries.
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,Afterword, |
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Drawing together the concerns of the book to reiterate how women writers had a different relationship with Arthurian texts in the Romantic period in comparison to their male counterparts, Garner looks forward to developments in women’s Arthurian writing in the Victorian period and considers its influence on Tennyson’s .
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