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Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance: Architectures of Wonder in Melusine (The New Middle Ages) by Jan Shaw (auth.) is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance: Architectures of Wonder in Melusine (The New Middle Ages) about?
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
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- Author
- Jan Shaw (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137450463
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Romance
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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