03354nam 22007335 450 991025523520332120251030105641.09781137450463113745046010.1057/978-1-137-45046-3(CKB)3710000000838151(EBL)4716597(DE-He213)978-1-137-45046-3(MiAaPQ)EBC4716597(Perlego)3488985(EXLCZ)99371000000083815120160829d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSpace, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance Architectures of Wonder in Melusine /by Jan Shaw1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (274 p.)The New Middle Ages,2945-5944Description based upon print version of record.9781137456502 1137456507 Includes bibliographical references.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.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.The New Middle Ages,2945-5944Literature, MedievalSexLiteratureLiteraturePhilosophyCultureStudy and teachingEuropeHistoryMedieval LiteratureGender StudiesLiteratureLiterary TheoryCultural TheoryEuropean HistoryLiterature, Medieval.Sex.Literature.LiteraturePhilosophy.CultureStudy and teaching.EuropeHistory.Medieval Literature.Gender Studies.Literature.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.European History.820.93522Shaw Janauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1059493BOOK9910255235203321Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance2506170UNINA