The Allegory of Female Authority : Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames" /

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The 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 Cite des Dames (1405) is the earliest European work on women's history by a woman. An allegorica...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quilligan, Maureen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Christine, > de Pisan, > approximately 1364-approximately 1431. > Livre de la cite des dames.
Livre de la cite des dames (Christine, de Pisan)
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Feminism and literature.
Authorship > Sex differences.
Authority in literature.
Allegory.
Allegorie.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Autorite dans la litterature.
Authorship > Sex differences > History > To 1500.
Women and literature > France > History > To 1500.
Feminism and literature > France > History > To 1500.
France.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The 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 Cite 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 Cite.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9781501729560

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