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Abandoned women : rewriting the classics in Dante, Boccaccio, & Chaucer / Suzanne C. Hagedorn.

Author/creator Hagedorn, Suzanne C., 1968-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2004.
Descriptionix, 220 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction: Abandoned Women and Medieval Tradition -- Ovid's Heroides and the Latin Middle Ages -- Statius's Achilleid and Dante's Canto of Ulysses: fraud, rhetoric, and abandoned women -- Boccaccio's Teseo, Chaucer's Theseus: duplicity and desire -- Abandoned women and the dynamics of reader response: Boccaccio's Amorosa, Visione, and Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta -- Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: re-gendering abandonment -- Chaucer's Heroides: The legend of good women -- Afterword: The metamorphoses of Ovid's heroines -- Appendix: "Deidamia Achilli," ed. Stohlmann.
General noteBased on the author's dissertation (Cornell University).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.
LCCN 2003011962
ISBN0472113496 (alk. paper)

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