Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance
Synopsis
This book offers a much-needed consideration of Melusine within medieval and contemporary theories of space, memory, and gender. The Middle English Melusine offers a particularly rich source for such a study, as it presents the story of a powerful fairy/human woman who desires a full human life--and death--within a literary tradition that is more friendly to women's agency than its continental counterparts. After establishing a "textual habitus of wonder," Jan Shaw explores the tale in relation to a range of Middle English traditions including love and marriage, the spatial practices of women, the operation of individual and collective memory, and the legacies of patrimony. Melusine emerges as a complex figure, representing a multifaceted feminine subject that furthers our understanding of Middle English women's sense of self in the world.
- Hakimiliki:
- 2016 Springer
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137450463
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan US, New York
- Date of Addition:
- 2017-03-20T23:14:45Z
- Lugha:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.