Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women

Klappentext The first book-length study of a seminal 'feminist' text from the Middle Ages. Zusammenfassung Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. This study shows the text's underlying unity and its insistence on the moral, if not the social, equality of the sexes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The 'querelle de la Rose': Christine's critique of misogynist doctrine and literary practice; 2. The Epistre Othéa: an ethical and allegorical alternative to the Roman de la Rose?; 3. The Avision-Christine: a female exemplar for the princely reader; 4. The Livre de la Cités Dames: generic transformation and the moral defence of women; 5. The Livre des Trois Vertus: a betrayal of the Cité?

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rosalind Brown-Grant, Brown-Grant Rosalind
• Con la collaborazione di: Patrick Boyde (Editore), Alastair Minnis (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.09.2003
• EAN: 9780521537742
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53774-2
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets