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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Quilligan, Maureen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. The Name of the Author --; 2. Rewriting Tradition: The Authority of Female Subjectivity --; 3. Rewriting the City: The Politics of Prophecy --; 4. Rewriting the Body: The Politics of Martyrdom --; 5. The Practice of History --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501729560; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501729560
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Maureen Quilligan.

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 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.