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Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid (Volume 8) (Medieval Cultures) by Marilynn Desmond; ProQuest (Firm) is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid (Volume 8) (Medieval Cultures) about?

xv, 296 pages : 24 cm 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, anti-homophobic, and postcolonial interpretive gestures Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index 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

Author

Marilynn Desmond; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816622467

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History