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Author:

Hagedorn, Suzanne C., 1968-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

ix, 220 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Literature, Medieval--Roman influences.
Women in literature.
Boccaccio, Giovanni,--1313-1375--Women.--Women.
Dante Alighieri,--1265-1321--Women.--Women.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400--Women.--Women.
Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D--Women.--Women.
Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.--Influence.
Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.--Heroides.
Separation (Psychology) in literature.
Vrouwen.
Letterkunde.
Boccaccio, Giovanni,--1313-1375--Femmes.--Femmes.
Dante Alighieri,--1265-1321--Femmes.--Femmes.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,--m. 1400--Femmes.--Femmes.
Ovide,--43 av. J.-C.-17 ou 18--Femmes.--Femmes.
Ovide,--43 av. J.-C.-17 ou 18--Influence.
Ovide,--43 av. J.-C.-17 ou 18.--Heroides.
Littérature médiévale--Influence romaine.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Séparation (Psychologie) dans la littérature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index. Revision of the author's thesis (Cornell University).

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.

ISBN:

9780472113491 (alk. paper)
0472113496 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2003011962

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)