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Space, gender, and memory in middle English romance : architectures of wonder in Melusine / Jan Shaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Jan, author.
- Series:
- New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- The new middle ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romances, English--History and criticism.
- Romances, English.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Melusine (Legendary character) in literature.
- English literature--Middle English.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 272 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan 2016.
- Summary:
- This volume 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.
- Contents:
- Dedication; Contents; Introduction; A Note on the Text; Notes; Chapter 1: An Epistemology of Wonder; Prologues, the Habitus, and Magical Objects; The Intrinsic Prologue of Melusine; The Boar Hunt; An Epistemology of Wonder; Notes; Chapter 2: Wonder and Love; The Problem with Love; Melusine and Raimondin in an Amorous Exchange; Notes; Chapter 3: Building Gender; Spatial Speculations; Gendered Spaces in the House; Women Enclosed in Romance; Melusine as Builder; Notes; Chapter 4: Architectures of Memory; Ars Memorativa; Forgetting and Other Failures of Memory; Architectures of Memory.
- Elynas's Tomb; Melior's Sparrowhawk Castle; Melusine's Bathroom; Cultures of Forgetting and Machines of the Mind; Notes; Chapter 5: Problematic Pasts and New Beginnings; The Prose Siege of Thebes; The Prose Life of Alexander; The Marriage Tales in Melusine; Ermynee, Eglantyne, and Florie: The Violence of Feminine Rescue; Christine: The Sovereign Woman; Looking to the Future; Notes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Texts; Secondary Texts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137456502
- 1137456507
- OCLC:
- 950954120
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