| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Author: |
TolhurstFiona., |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
Basingstoke |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Arthurian and courtly cultures |
| Subject: |
Women in literature. - |
| Subject: |
English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - |
| Personal Subject: |
Geoffrey - |
| Personal Subject: |
Geoffrey - Criticism and interpretation. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137329264An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
"Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female King" provides the first feminist analysis of the part of "The History of the Kings of Britain" that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's. Fiona Tolhurst demonstrates that Geoffrey not only creates precedents for the future reign of Empress Matilda in England but also presents female rule as an attractive and beneficial alternative to male immorality and incompetence. Her study adds a new dimension to contemporary scholarship by proposing that the word 'feminist'; can be used to describe this history that - in contrast to the works of Geoffrey's predecessors, redactors, and early translators - presents female rule positively. |
| ISBN: |
9781137329264electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137329262electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship Re-reading Empress Matilda as a Female King Geoffrey's History as Preparation for a Female King Undermining and Degrading Female Kingship in the First Variant and the Roman de Brut Delegitimizing and Erasing Female Kingship in the 'Epistola Warino Britoni,' the Chronica majora, and Layamon's Brut. |