Author

Publication

2017 - Palgrave Macmillan Limited

Language

English

Word Count

77,750 words, Guess

Page Count

311 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781137597113
  • ISBN-101137597119
  • OCLC Control Number994638407
  • Better World Books9781137597113
  • Open LibraryOL34549909M

Classifications

  • LCCPN1-PN6790
  • LCCPR115 .G37 2017

Description

"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 function of romance, the role of the imagination, and women's place in literary history."--Back cover.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian LegendPalgrave Macmillan Limited2017

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