Abstract
The Water of the Wondrous Isles is not only Morris’s last romance of reasonable completeness but also arguably his finest work. Its extraordinary innovation is to offer us a quest-romance with a female protagonist, and it cannot be fully appreciated unless the paradox of that design is understood.
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Linda Gallasch, The Use of Compounds and Archaic Diction in the Works of William Morris (Bern: Peter Lang 1979).
Philip Henderson, William Morris, His life, Work and Friends (London: Longmans, 1967).
Carole Silver, The Romance of William Morris (Cleveland, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1982).
‘The Last Tournament’, 11.431–2, in Robert W. Hill, Jr (ed.), Tennyson’s Poetry (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 1971).
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Talbot, N. (1991). Heroine as Hero: Morris’s Case Against Quest-Romance. In: Filmer, K. (eds) The Victorian Fantasists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21277-4_3
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