|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910457375103321 |
|
|
Autore |
Desmond Marilynn <1952-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Reading Dido [[electronic resource] ] : gender, textuality, and the medieval Aeneid / / Marilynn Desmond |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Minnepolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (314 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Medieval cultures ; ; v. 8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
English literature - Roman influences |
English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism |
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism |
Dido (Legendary character) in literature |
Literature, Medieval - Roman influences |
Sex role in literature |
Queens in literature |
Electronic books. |
Carthage (Extinct city) In literature |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Gender and the Politics of Reading Virgil; 1. Dux Femina Facti: Virgil's Dido in the Historical Context; 2. Dido as Libido: From Augustine to Dante; 3. Dido in Courtly Romance and the Structures of History; 4. Sely Dido and the Chaucerian Gaze; 5. Dido's Double Wound in Caxton's Eneydos and Gavin Douglas's Eneados; 6. Christine de Pizan's Feminist Self-Fashioning and the Invention of Dido; Epilogue: On Reading Dido; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Marilynn Desmond recovers an alternative Virgil from historical tradition and provides a new model for reading the Aeneid. Following the figure of Dido as she emerges from ancient historical and literary texts and circulates in medieval textual cultures, Reading Dido offers the modern reader a series of countertraditions that support feminist, |
|
|
|
|