CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Guinevere Post-2000 and Lavinia Collins
The Arthurian Market Slows
With the dawning of the twenty-first century—a full thousand years after Guinevere first graced Arthurian legend with her written presence—one would think Guinevere’s time might have finally come. Perhaps, but it wasn’t through new work championed by the traditional publishing industry. In her thesis, Sara Cooley cites a study showing “no fewer than forty books on Arthurian themes were published in the United States in the year 2000 alone,’ [but] only a handful of these have been written through the perspectives of female characters.”522
Why? She blames the post-feminist movement, which caused “the freshest story, the most creative spin [to] no longer include the feminist politics that have been declar
