Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance: Architectures of Wonder in Melusine: 2016 (The New Middle Ages)

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 lifeùand deathùwithin a literary tradition that is more friendly to womenÆs agency than its continental counterparts. After establishing a ôtextual habitus of wonder,ö 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 womenÆs sense of self in the world.

• | Author: Jan Shaw
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Sep 13, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 279 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1137456507
• | ISBN-13: 9781137456502