UID:
almahu_9947363429902882
Format:
VII, 272 p.
,
online resource.
ISBN:
9781137450463
Series Statement:
The New Middle Ages
Content:
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.
Note:
Introduction -- Chapter One: An Epistemology of Wonder -- Chapter Two: Wonder and Love -- Chapter Three: Building Gender -- Chapter Four: Architectures of Memory -- Chapter Five: Problematic Pasts and New Beginnings -- Conclusion: The Divine Ordo: Reprise.
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781137456502
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-45046-3
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45046-3
