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4 Monstrous Maternity, Melusine, and the Threat of the Mature Female Body
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Jane Elizabeth Bonsall
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vi
- Abbreviations viii
- Introduction: Reading Genre, Reading Gender 1
- 1 Healing Women in the English Tristan texts: Age, Agency, and Morality 29
- 2 Foreign Queenship in Bevis of Hampton: Pleasure, Peril, and Split Perspectives 55
- 3 Reconfiguring Space, Gender, and Authority in the Fairy Mistress Romances 95
- 4 Monstrous Maternity, Melusine, and the Threat of the Mature Female Body 138
- 5 Reflection, Reiteration, Distortion: Re-Reading Morgan le Fay 177
- Coda: Feeling Genre, Touching Romance 212
- Bibliography 216
- Index 239
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vi
- Abbreviations viii
- Introduction: Reading Genre, Reading Gender 1
- 1 Healing Women in the English Tristan texts: Age, Agency, and Morality 29
- 2 Foreign Queenship in Bevis of Hampton: Pleasure, Peril, and Split Perspectives 55
- 3 Reconfiguring Space, Gender, and Authority in the Fairy Mistress Romances 95
- 4 Monstrous Maternity, Melusine, and the Threat of the Mature Female Body 138
- 5 Reflection, Reiteration, Distortion: Re-Reading Morgan le Fay 177
- Coda: Feeling Genre, Touching Romance 212
- Bibliography 216
- Index 239
