"A lively and thought-provoking study of gender in the Arthurian community. It is at once theoretically sophisticated and highly readable, full of insightful close readings yet conscious of larger patterns of analysis."--Laurie Finke, Kenyon...
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"A lively and thought-provoking study of gender in the Arthurian community. It is at once theoretically sophisticated and highly readable, full of insightful close readings yet conscious of larger patterns of analysis."--Laurie Finke, Kenyon CollegeGender and the Chivalric Community in Malory's Morte d'Arthur reveals, for the first time in a book-length study, how Thomas Malory's unique approach to gender identity in his revisions of earlier Arthurian works produces a text entirely unlike others in the canon of medieval romance
Table of Contents; Acknowledgments vii; Introduction 1; 1. Gender and the Chivalric Community: The Rise of Arthur's Kingdom 27; 2. Chivalric Performance: Malory's Sir Lancelot 67; 3. Forecast and Recall: Gareth and Tristram 110; 4. Gender, Kinship, and Community: The Quest for the Holy Grail 144; 5. Lancelot, Guenevere, and the Death of Arthur: The Decline and Fall of the Chivalric Community 173; Notes 213; Bibliography 249; Index 267;
