The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames"
Maureen QuilliganThe first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan (1363-1431) was widowed at age twenty-five and supported herself and her family by enlisting powerful patrons for her poetry. Her Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is the earliest European work on women's history by a woman. An allegorical poem that revises masculine traditions, it asserts and defends the authority of women in general and of its author in particular. In this generously illustrated book, Maureen Quilligan provides a persuasive and penetrating interpretation of the Cité.
Рік:
2018
Видавництво:
Cornell University Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
312
ISBN 10:
150172956X
ISBN 13:
9781501729560
Файл:
PDF, 32.28 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2018