Lydia Zeldenrust

The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe (eBook, PDF)

Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

The legend of Mélusine examined in a pan-European context.

Readers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic figure of Mélusine - a beautiful fairy woman cursed to transform into a half-serpent once a week, whose part-monstrous sons are the ancestor of several European noble houses. Thisstudy is the first to consider how this romance developed from a local legend to European bestseller, analysing versions in French, German, Castilian, Dutch, and English. It addresses questions on how to study medieval literaturefrom a European perspective, moving beyond national canons, and reading Mélusine's bodily mutability as a metaphor for how the romance itself moves and transforms across borders. It also analyses key changes to the romance's content, form, and material presentation - including its images - and traces how the people who produced and consumed this romance shaped its international transmission and spread. The author shows how Mélusine's character is adaptedwithin each local context, while also uncovering previously unknown connections between the different branches of this multilingual tradition. Moving beyond established paradigms of separate national traditions, manuscript versusprint, and medieval versus Renaissance literature, the book integrates literary analysis with art historical and book historical approaches.

LYDIA ZELDENRUST is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 285
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787446137
• Artikelnr.: 63205028

Autorenporträt

LYDIA ZELDENRUST is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mutations of Mélusine Chapter 1: The French Mélusine and
Roman de Parthenay Textual Witnesses: Audience, Variance, Selected Corpus
Mélusine: God's Marvellous Monster Careful Plotting: Revealing Mélusine's
Curse and Fairy Nature From Half-Serpent to Serpent: Hybridity and
Transformation Inheriting Monstrosity: Mélusine's Sons Chapter 2: The
German Melusine From Manuscript to Print: Audiences, Images, and Textual
Stability Melusine the Ideal Christian Fairy Serpent or Half-Serpent?
Melusine the Monstrous Mother Chapter 3: The Castilian Melosina The 1489
Edition by Parix and Cleblat The 1526 Edition by the Crombergers Key
Transformations in Style and Paratext Melosina: More Fairy than Human? A
Catholic Wedding Duality Versus Animality Depicting/Recycling the Monstrous
Body: Melosina's Sons Chapter 4: The Dutch Meluzine The 1491 Edition by
Gheraert Leeu The 1510 Edition by Henrick Eckert van Homberch The 1602
Edition by Hieronymus I Verdussen A Hybrid Translation: How, Why, and Which
Source? More Human than Fairy Becoming the Animal Increased Focus on
Hybridity Chapter 5: The English Melusine and Partenay The Prose Melusine
The Printed Melusine Fragments The Verse Partenay Why Translations of Both
Versions? Translation Strategies: Content versus Form 'ryght as the frenshe
wil yiff me evidence': Invisibility and Close Translation Melusine and Her
Part-Monstrous Sons Conclusion: Mélusine's European Dimensions Appendix:
Manuscripts and Printed Editions of the Various Mélusine Versions (up to c.
1600)