![]() ![]() ![]() Although there has been growing interest in Melusine as a research topic, especially as this tale has evolved and been reinterpreted within popular Anglophone culture, Melusine's Footprint stands out by providing a diverse representation of the legend within a wider global and historical framework. Melusine's Footprint is the first compilation of scholarly analyses in English on the medieval French legend of Melusine since 1996's Melusine of Lusignan, edited by Maddox and Sturm-Maddox. ![]() The articles included prove to be essential reading not only for medievalists, but also for scholars focused on fairy tale and folklore studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, gender theory, and postmodernist theory. ![]() The title suggests Melusine's continued cultural presence as understood through Jacques Derrida's concept of trace, while also speaking to Melusine's literal regenerative quality as embodied in her tail, emphasizing her serpentine, chthonic roots. Elms present a collection of scholarly essays that looks at the literary trajectory of the Melusine tale from the Medieval Period through contemporary depictions. In Melusine's Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth, editors Misty Urban, Deva F. Melusine's Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth, 2017. ![]()
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