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  • Space, gender, and memory in Middle English romance[electronic resource] :architectures of wonder in Melusine /
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 820.9353
    Title/Author: Space, gender, and memory in Middle English romance : architectures of wonder in Melusine // by Jan Shaw.
    Author: Shaw, Jan.
    Published: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan US :, 2016.
    Description: vii, 272 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    Subject: English literature - History and criticism. - Middle English, 1100-1500
    Subject: Literature.
    Subject: Medieval Literature.
    Subject: Gender Studies.
    Subject: Literature, general.
    Subject: Literary Theory.
    Subject: Cultural Theory.
    Subject: European History.
    ISBN: 9781137450463
    ISBN: 9781137456502
    [NT 15000228]: Introduction -- Chapter One: An Epistemology of Wonder -- Chapter Two: Wonder and Love -- Chapter Three: Building Gender -- Chapter Four: Architectures of Memory -- Chapter Five: Problematic Pasts and New Beginnings -- Conclusion: The Divine Ordo: Reprise.
    [NT 15000229]: 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.
    Online resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45046-3
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