The Reclamation of a Queen: Guinevere in Modern Fantasy

by Barbara Ann Gordon-Wise and Barbara A. Gordon Wise

The Reclamation of a Queen seeks new approaches to Guinevere's shadowed, negative image in the Arthurian legends. There the Queen was generally perceived as either a seemingly passive object of men's desires or as a destructive temptress. Barbara Ann Gordon-Wise asserts that Guinevere's treatment in every historical period has been influenced by basic sociological and ideological pressures and has been conditioned by a traditionally masculine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031326323X
• ISBN13: 9780313263231
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.2"