Abandoned women : rewriting the classics in Dante, Boccaccio, & Chaucer

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

Author/creator	Hagedorn, Suzanne C., 1968-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2004.
Description	ix, 220 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375--Characters --Women. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Characters --Women. Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Characters --Women. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.--Characters --Women. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.--Influence. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Heroides. Literature, Medieval--Roman influences. Women in literature. Separation (Psychology) in literature.

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 note	Based on the author's dissertation (Cornell University).
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.
LCCN	2003011962
ISBN	0472113496 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PN682.W6 H34 2004	✔ Available	Place Hold