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Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance: Architectures of Wonder in Melusine
Jan Shaw
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Description for Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance: Architectures of Wonder in Melusine
Hardback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABC; 3F; 3H; DSA; DSBB; HBJD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 172 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
The New Middle Ages
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137456502
SKU
V9781137456502
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Ref
99-15
About Jan Shaw
Jan Shaw is Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has published on women in the romance of Medieval Britain, medievalism in contemporary literature by women, and narrative and gender approaches in leadership studies. She is also co-editor of Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches.
Reviews for Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance: Architectures of Wonder in Melusine
The story of the beautiful fairy Melusine who is cursed by her own mother to transform into a half-serpent once a week has fascinated readers for centuries. ... Shaw's analysis covers an impressive range of modern and medieval concepts ... . Shaw's work lays a good and highly promising foundation for future discussions about this text, and about feminine subjectivity ... Read more