Overview
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 Victorian Arthurian literature with Romantic treatments of Arthur in Gothic poetry, travel writing, and literary annuals
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“Katie Garner’s Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend is to experience a shift in scale. Garner’s work is on a niche topic, and the question arises as to how broad a readership it can attract. … scholars interested in Romantic medievalism or Romantic Arthurianism more specifically may want to follow up some of the paths Garner opens, and they will undoubtedly find this monograph a useful source book.” (Geraldine S. Friedman, European Romantic Review, Vol. 30 (4), 2019)
“Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend wears its intellectual rigour with elegance and manages to be fluent and readable while demonstrably being the product of erudite and incisive research. … Garner’s book will be of enormous benefit to scholars of nineteenth-century Arthurania and medievalism, as well as to scholars researching nineteenth-century women’s reading practices and negotiations with the literary marketplace more generally.” (Clare Broome Saunders, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 38 (1), 2019)
“Engagingly written and painstakingly researched, this book provides an insightful and multifaceted view of Romantic women writers’ relationship with Arthurian legend.” (Lisa Plummer Crafton, Medievally Speaking, medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com, August, 2018) “Meticulously researched and elegantly organized, Katie Garner’s Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend is the most extensive study to date of what British women writers of the Romantic era knew about Arthurian stories, showing how they imaginatively adapted these often insubstantial and fragmentary sources into works expressive of their own concerns and desires. Scholars of nineteenth-century poetry, especially of Tennyson, will find Garner’s exploration of the themes and language of women’s writing enlightening. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the development of nineteenth-century medievalism.” (Clare A. Simmons, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Ohio State University, USA)
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About the author
Katie Garner is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend
Book Subtitle: The Quest for Knowledge
Authors: Katie Garner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59712-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59711-3Published: 29 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95566-4Published: 30 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59712-0Published: 11 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 311
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction, Literary History