![]() ![]() Melusine the Serpent Goddess restores the dignity acknowledged to women of old, making a forceful statement about the power and creativity of women. Maud Bailey is a scholar researching the life and work of her distant relative, a little-known 19th-century poet named Christabel LaMotte. (These characters are fictional but loosely based on real-life poets. The book depicts the quest of modern-day academics to uncover the truth about a relationship between two Victorian poets, Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte. Byatt’s gloriously exhilarating novel of wit and romance. It was published in 1990 and was the author's fifth full-length novel. A forceful exploration of literature, history, and myth, this study sweeps away limiting assumptions about the female sex. Two modern-day academics uncover a secret affair between famous fictional poets in A.S. Alban deconstructs part of Genesis, including the roles of Adam and Eve and Cain's crime, and illuminates the Old Testament worship of the goddess Asherah alongside the male Yahweh. ![]() ![]() Mother, creator, and leader, the figure of Melusine was ultimately vilified and tellingly converted into the demon of patriarchal accounts, as seen in the examples of Lilith, Medusa, Scylla, and the serpent in the Garden. The book describes the erotically inspiring force of Melusine's love story and draws parallels with goddesses such as Lamia, Ishtar or Inanna, Isis, and Asherah. Byatt's novel Possession, into medieval legend, and beyond into her antecedents in ancient myth. ![]() Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine snake-woman image through the plot and the poetry of A. ![]()
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