Melusine's footprint : : tracing the legacy of a medieval myth / / edited by Misty Urban, Deva F. Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes.

• Superior document: Explorations in medieval culture
• TeilnehmendeR: Urban, Misty.; Kemmis, Deva.; Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Explorations in Medieval Culture 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 437 pages) :; color illustrations, photographs.

In Melusine's Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth , editors Misty Urban, Deva Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes offer an invigorating international and interdisciplinary examination of the legendary fairy Melusine. Along with fresh insights into the popular French and German traditions, these essays investigate Melusine's English, Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese counterparts and explore her roots in philosophy, folklore, and classical myth. Combining approaches from art history, history, alchemy, literature, cultural studies, and medievalism, applying rigorous critical lenses ranging from feminism and comparative literature to film and monster theory, this volume brings Melusine scholarship into the twenty-first century with twenty lively and evocative essays that reassess this powerful figure's multiple meanings and illuminate her dynamic resonances across cultures and time. Contributors are Anna Casas Aguilar, Jennifer Alberghini, Frederika Bain, Anna-Lisa Baumeister, Albrecht Classen, Chera A. Cole, Tania M. Colwell, Zoë Enstone, Stacey L. Hahn, Deva F. Kemmis, Ana Pairet, Pit Péporté, Simone Pfleger, Caroline Prud'Homme, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Renata Schellenberg, Misty Urban, Angela Jane Weisl, Lydia Zeldenrust, and Zifeng Zhao.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Bodies and Texts: Mapping Melusine in Art and Print -- The Tail of Melusine: Hybridity, Mutability, and the Accessible Other / Frederika Bain -- Polycorporality and Heteromorphia: Untangling Melusine's Mixed Bodies / Ana Pairet -- Mermaid, Mother, Monster, and More: Portraits of the Fairy Woman in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Melusine Narratives / Caroline Prud'Homme -- The Melusine Figure in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Literature and Art: Cultural-Historical Information within the Pictorial Program / Albrecht Classen -- The Alchemical Transformation of Melusine / Melissa Ridley Elmes -- Mother, Muse: Melusine and Political Identity -- Architecture and Empire in Historia de la linda Melosina / Anna Casas Aguilar -- The Lady with the Serpent's Tail: Hybridity and the Dutch Meluzine / Lydia Zeldenrust -- Matriarchs and Mother Tongues: The Middle English Romans of Partenay / Jennifer Alberghini -- Melusine and Luxembourg: A Double Memory / Pit Péporté -- Theoretical Transformations: Readings and Refigurations -- Youth and Rebellion in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine / Stacey L. Hahn -- The Promise of (Un)Happiness in Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine / Simone Pfleger -- Half Lady, Half Serpent: Melusine's Monstrous Body and the Discourse of Romance / Angela Jane Weisl -- Passing as a "Humayn Woman": Hybridity and Salvation in the Middle English Melusine / Chera A. Cole -- Melusine and Purgatorial Punishment: The Changing Nature of Fays / Zoë Enstone -- Metamorphoses of Snake Women: Melusine and Madam White / Zifeng Zhao -- Melusines Medieval to Modern -- Goethe and Die neue Melusine: A Critical Reinterpretation / Renata Schellenberg -- "Listening Down the Hall": An Epistemological Consideration of the Encounter with Melusine in the Germanic Literary Tradition / Deva F. Kemmis -- Woman, Abject, Animal: Refigurations of Melusine in Frischmuth, Jelinek, and EXPORT / Anna-Lisa Baumeister -- How the Dragon Ate the Woman: The Fate of Melusine in English / Misty Urban -- Melusines Past, Present, and Future: An Afterword / Tania M. Colwell.