The Lady with the Serpent’s Tail: Hybridity and the Dutch Meluzine

Zeldenrust, L. (2017) The Lady with the Serpent’s Tail: Hybridity and the Dutch Meluzine. In: Urban, M., Kemmis, D. and Ridley Elmes, M. (eds.) Melusine's Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth. Series: Explorations in medieval culture, 4. Brill, pp. 132-145. ISBN 9789004355958 (doi: 10.1163/9789004355958_009)

Abstract

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.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Additional Information: Print ISBN: 9789004315082.
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Zeldenrust, Dr Lydia
• Authors: Zeldenrust, L.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Language and Linguistics
• Publisher: Brill
• ISBN: 9789004355958