Afterlives of the Lady Shalott and Elaine of Astolat

Acknowledgments
Praise for Afterlives of the Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat
Contents
Abbreviations and Spellings
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
	1.1 The Topic
	1.2 Death and the Maiden
	1.3 King Arthur Returns
	1.4 Medievalism(s), Neomedievalism
	1.5 Adaptation and Allusion
	1.6 Texts and Trends
	1.7 Afterlives
	References
2 The Lady and Elaine: Medieval Literature and Victorian Adaptation
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Before Tennyson
	2.3 Tennyson’s Lady, Tennyson’s Elaine
	2.4 Responses
	References
3 Singing Her Own Song: The Lady/Elaine in Music
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 The Lady and Elaine in Music
	3.3 Nineteenth-Century Music: Material Conditions and Interpretations
		3.3.1 Sweet Is True Love
	3.4 Twentieth-Century Music: Material Conditions and Interpretations
		3.4.1 Adapting the Lady to Music
		3.4.2 Speaking for Her Own Self
	3.5 The Power of the Voice
	References
4 “She Hath a Lovely Face”: The Lady/Elaine in Art
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 The Victorian Context
	4.3 “Who Hath Seen Her …?”
	4.4 Book Illustrations
		4.4.1 Doré
		4.4.2 Cameron
		4.4.3 Rhead
	4.5 Paintings
		4.5.1 Rosenthal’s Elaine (1874)
		4.5.2 Hunt’s Lady
		4.5.3 Waterhouse’s Ladies (1888, 1894, 1915)
	4.6 “Out Flew the Web …”:  The Lady/Elaine Online
	4.7 Another Kind of Lady
	4.8 The Power of the Image
	References
5 Patterns and Parody: The Lady/Elaine in Literature
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Patterns
		5.2.1 Conflation of Lady/Elaine
		5.2.2 Non-Arthurian Intertexts
		5.2.3 Strategies of Adaptation
		5.2.4 Images: Tower (Entrapment and Isolation)
		5.2.5 Images: Mirror (Reality and Self)
		5.2.6 Images: Weaving/Embroidery (Creativity and Art)
		5.2.7 Images: Lancelot (Life-Altering Desire, Loss, and Rejection)
		5.2.8 Images: Curse and Boat (Inevitability of Fate/Doom)
	5.3 Parody
		5.3.1 The Lady on South Street
		5.3.2 Floating Down to Cambridge
	5.4 Conclusion
	References
6 Reading and Resisting: The Lady/Elaine in Young People’s Literature
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Retelling the Story
	6.3 Responding to the Story
	6.4 Richardson’s Heroic Lily Maid
	6.5 Montgomery’s Unfortunate Lily Maid
	6.6 Pulman’s Virtual Lady
	6.7 Cabot’s Anti-Elaine
	6.8 Conclusion
	References
7 Desire and Art: The Lady/Elaine in Historical Fiction and Fantasy
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 A Woman’s Place
	7.3 Romancing Elaine
	7.4 Changing the Material
	7.5 Rewriting the Knight and Empowering the Lady
	7.6 Conclusion
	References
8 Postscript
	References
Index