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Space, gender, and memory in middle English romance : architectures of wonder in Melusine

Title: Space, gender, and memory in middle English romance : architectures of wonder in Melusine / Jan Shaw.
Author: Shaw, Jan
Publication: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan 2016.

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Description

vii, 272 pages; 22 cm

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.

Series Statement

The new middle ages

Uniform Title

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-242) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFD 16-5767

ISBN

9781137456502
1137456507

LCCN

2016947266

OCLC

950954120

Author

Shaw, Jan, author.

Title

Space, gender, and memory in middle English romance : architectures of wonder in Melusine / Jan Shaw.

Publisher

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The new middle ages

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-242) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-5767

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