Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance
Shaw, Jan
Produktnummer:
18b417ec53ac6b4cae9ee467d329e86b20
| Autor: | Shaw, Jan |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Colonialism Europe Gender Studies Medieval Melusine Memory Studies Middle English Romance antiquity culture gender |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 13.09.2016 |
| EAN: | 9781137456502 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 272 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Untertitel: | Architectures of Wonder in Melusine |
Produktinformationen "Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance"
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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