A Quest of Her Own
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A Quest of Her Own: Essays on the Female Hero in Modern Fantasy

A Quest of Her Own: Essays on the Female Hero in Modern Fantasy


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This collection of new essays seeks to define the unique qualities of female heroism in literary fantasy from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s through the present. Building upon traditional definitions of the hero in myth and folklore as the root genres of modern fantasy, the essays provide a multi-faceted view of an important fantasy character type who begins to demonstrate a significant presence only in the latter 20th century. The essays contribute to the empowerment and development of the female hero as an archetype in her own right.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction I. Pathfinders: Empowered Women from Romance and Folktale to the Birth of Modern Fantasy Strategic Silences: Voiceless Heroes in Fairy Tales (Jeana Jorgensen) Neglected Yet Noble: Nyneve and Female Heroism in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur (Kristin ­Bovaird-Abbo) “Radiant and terrible”: Tolkien’s Heroic Women as Correctives to the Romance and Epic Traditions (Jack M. Downs) Female Valor Without Renown: Memory, Mourning and Loss at the Center of ­Middle-earth (Sarah Workman) II. Underestimated Overachievers: Unlikely and Unstoppable Female Heroes “Weak as woman’s magic”: Empowering Care Work in Ursula Le Guin’s Tehanu (Erin Wyble Newcomb) “Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky”: Neil Gaiman’s Extraordinarily Ordinary Coraline (Melissa Wehler) Dancing with the Public: Alethea Kontis’s Enchanted, Rachel Hartman’s Seraphina and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder (Casey A. Cothran) “This huntress who delights in arrows”: The Female Archer in Children’s Fiction (Zoe Jaques) III. Show-Stealers: Heroic Female Sidekicks and Helpers Sublime ­Shape-Shifters and Uncanny ­Other-Selves: Identity and Multiplicity in Diana Wynne Jones’s Female Heroes (Apolline Lucyk) A New Kind of Hero: A Song of Ice and Fire’s Brienne of Tarth (John H. Cameron) And Her Will Be Done: The Girls Trump the Boys in The Keys to the Kingdom and Abhorsen Series by Garth Nix (Lori M. Campbell) IV. Unwilling ­Do-Gooders: Villains and ­Villain-Heroes The Problem of Mrs. Coulter: Vetting the Female ­Villain-Hero in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (Amanda M. Greenwell) “All little girls are terrible”: Maud as ­Anti-Villain in Catherynne M. Valente’s The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Jill Marie Treftz) The Unbreakable Vow: Maternal Impulses and Narcissa Malfoy’s Transformation from Villain to Hero in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series (Sarah Margaret Kniesler) Conclusion (Lori M. Campbell) About the Contributors Index

About the Author :
Lori M. Campbell is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.

Review :
“This reviewer cannot find a weak link in this selection, which is all the more important because fantasy literature has often been overlooked in academic circles. One can hope this collection indicates a change in that attitude, or will help to being one about...recommended”—Choice.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780786477661
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 413 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0786477660
  • Publisher Date: 07 Aug 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essays on the Female Hero in Modern Fantasy
  • Width: 152 mm


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