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Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance: Architectures of Wonder in Melusine

Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance: Architectures of Wonder in Melusine

Shaw, Jan

Hardcover

Series: New Middle Ages

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 1137456507
ISBN13: 9781137456502
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 13 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.07 Depth: 8.73
Language: English
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.

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