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• Title: Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance
• Author : Jan Shaw
• Release Date : January 29, 2016
• Genre: Literary Criticism,Books,Fiction & Literature,Nonfiction,Social Science,History,Europe,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 1905 KB

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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.

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