Women and Magic in Medieval Romance - Genre, Intertextuality and Power

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Jane Bonsall

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Jane Elizabeth Bonsall, Jane Elizabeth Bonsall
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781843846659
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-665-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 535 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies