Women Reading and Women Writing and Men Writing Women Who Read and Write: (Re-) Considering Women's Literate Practices and the Ethics of Women's Literacy in Malory's Morte Darthur
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Abstract:Sir Thomas Malory's efforts in his Morte Darthur to represent Queen Gwenyvere and Queen Isode as being no more or less flawed than their male counterparts betray his own ethical uncertainty as author and adapter of his source materials for an audience including women.
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Arthuriana publishes peer-reviewed, on-line analytical and bibliographical surveys of various Arthurian subjects. You can access these e-resources through this site. The review and evaluation processes for e-articles is identical to that for the print journal . Once accepted for publication, our surveys are supported and maintained by Professor Alan Lupack at the University of Rochester through the Camelot Project.