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This article examines the history of scholarship of both Middle English Arthurian literature and its afterlives to argue that the marginalisation of such literature has slowly diminished -often through the work of women. The increasing numbers of women in academia coincided with the advent of new methodologies in literary studies in the late-twentieth century to produce a wide range of scholarship on English Arthurian literature, including on texts that had long been considered beneath serious study. This work continues now, with recent studies considering English Arthuriana through postcolonial theory, queer theory, affect theory, adaptation studies and many other methods. Résumé: En examinant l'histoire des études universitaires sur la littérature arthurienne en moyen anglais et de ses adaptations, cet article démontrera que la marginalisation de cette littérature a lentement diminué en grande partie grâce au travail des femmes. L'augmentation du nombre des femmes dans les différents milieux universitaires a coïncidé avec l'apparition de nouvelles approches méthodologiques en études littéraires à la fin du XX e siècle, produisant une vaste gamme d'études sur la littérature arthur

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Author

Usha Vishnuvajjala

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)