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- Fills a much-needed scholarly gap for Melusine, a work that has been under-explored up until now
- Approaches Melusine through several theoretical discussions including spatial, gender, and memory theories
- Widens discussions of Melusine to larger contexts about gender and England in the Middle Ages.
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Displaying both a wide range of scholarship and a readable style, Jan Shaw shines a revealing light upon a number of medieval discourses – religious, philosophical, historical and architectural – as well as the theorizations of the feminine of our own times to reinterpret the little-known late medieval romance of Melusine. This study will transform our understanding of both the text and the potential of feminine subjectivity in the Middle Ages.” (Peter Goodall, Honorary Professor of Arts and Communication, University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
“Intelligently written and compelling to read, Jan Shaw’s pioneering account of the Middle English Melusine retrieves a complex heroine who challenges cultural narratives of gender. Engaging lucidly with theories of space and memory, Shaw redefines Melusine’s ambiguous hybridity, half fairy and half human, as a positive source of female agency. Shaw’s book, the first full-length study of this key text, transforms our understanding of the female subject in medieval romance.” (Helen Fulton, Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Bristol, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of English, Department of English, Sydney, Australia
Jan Shaw
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance
Book Subtitle: Architectures of Wonder in Melusine
Authors: Jan Shaw
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45046-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45650-2Published: 13 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-68754-1Published: 23 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45046-3Published: 29 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 272
Topics: Medieval Literature, Gender Studies, Literature, general, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, European History