ISBN:
9781137450463
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (VII, 272 p)
Series Statement:
The New Middle Ages
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Sex (Psychology)
;
Gender expression
;
Gender identity
;
Literature
;
Culture Study and teaching
;
Europe History
;
Literature Philosophy
;
Literature, Medieval
;
Sociology
;
Literature
;
Culture Study and teaching
;
Europe History
;
Literature Philosophy
;
Literature, Medieval
;
Sociology
;
Sex (Psychology)
;
Gender expression
;
Gender identity
;
Mittelenglisch
;
Romance
;
Melusine
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-45046-3
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