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7. Desire and Art: The Lady/Elaine in Historical Fiction and Fantasy

Author : Ann F. Howey

Published in: Afterlives of the Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter investigates historical fiction and fantasy, using texts whose focalization or narration includes Lady/Elaine figures in a medieval-like setting. Lisa Ann Sandell’s Song of the Sparrow, Gwen Rowley’s Knights of the Round Table: Lancelot, Phyllis Ann Karr’s “Two Bits of Embroidery,” and Patricia A. McKillip’s The Tower at Stony Wood demonstrate the ways medievalism and genre conventions intersect to facilitate representations of the Lady/Elaine as agents of desire and of artistic production.

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Metadata
Title
Desire and Art: The Lady/Elaine in Historical Fiction and Fantasy
Author
Ann F. Howey
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Afterlives of the Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-47689-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-47690-8

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47690-8_7