Jane Elizabeth Bonsall

Women and Magic in Medieval Romance

Genre, Intertextuality and Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the conventions and contradictions inherent in archetypes of magical femininity - from loathly ladies to monstrous mothers - in a range of popular late medieval English romances.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781843846659
• ISBN-10: 1843846659
• Artikelnr.: 71878399

Autorenporträt

JANE BONSALL is a postdoctoral researcher at St Andrews University. Her research focuses on genre, gender, medieval and modern affect, and storytelling practices.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Reading Genre
Reading Gender 1. Healing Women in the English Tristan texts: Age
Agency
and Morality 2.Foreign Queenship in Bevis of Hampton: Pleasure
Peril
and Split Perspectives 3. Reconfiguring Space
Gender and Authority in the Fairy Mistress Romances 4. Monstrous Maternity
Melusine
and the Threat of the Mature Female Body 5. Reflection
Reiteration
Distortion: Re-Reading Morgan le Fay Coda: Feeling Genre
Touching Romance Bibliography Index