The Allegory of Female Authority : : Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames" / / 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 allegorica...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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