Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance

Architectures of Wonder in Melusine

von Jan Shaw

272 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: The New Middle Ages
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein Antike, Klassik, Mittelalter
• ISBN: 9781137456502
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2016
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US