Space, gender, and memory in Middle English romance : architectures of wonder in Melusine
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Space, gender, and memory in Middle English romance : architectures of wonder in Melusine
（The new Middle Ages）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
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Bibliography: p. 219-242
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
IntroductionChapter One: An Epistemology of WonderChapter Two: Wonder and LoveChapter Three: Building GenderChapter Four: Architectures of MemoryChapter Five: Problematic Pasts and New BeginningsConclusion: The Divine Ordo: Reprise
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