Title: Politics, gender, and genre : the political thought of Christine de Pizan /
Authors: Brabant, Margaret
Publisher: Westview Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Christine, Political and social views.; Politics and literature France History.; Feminism and literature France History.; Political science France History; Rhetoric, Medieval.; Literary form; Politics and literature France History; Feminism and literature France History; Political science France History; Literary form History; Gender identity in literature.; Sex role in literature; France Politics and government
Contents: Introduction / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- The political significance of Christine de Pizan / Eric Hicks -- Christine de Pizan: from poet to political commentator / Charity Cannon Willard -- Polycracy, obligation, and revolt: the body politic in John of Salisbury and Christine de Pizan / Kate Langdon Forhan -- Christine de Pizan and the Jews: political and poetic implications / Nadia Margolis -- French cultural nationalism and Christian universalism in the works of Christine de Pizan / Earl Jeffrey Richards -- L'Avision Christine: autobiographical narrative or mirror for the prince? / Rosalind Brown-Grant -- Vox femina, vox politica: the Lamentacion sur les maux de la France / Margarete Zimmermann -- Authority in the prose treatises of Christine de Pizan: the writer's discourse and the prince's word / Liliane Dulac -- The political rhetoric of Christine de Pizan: Lamentacion sur les maux de la guerre civile / Linda Leppig -- The subversive "Seulette" / Mary McKinley -- Christine de Pizan: "at best a contradictory figure"? / Christine M. Reno -- History, politics, and Christine studies: a pollemical reply / Sheila Delany -- Identity and differences in Christine de Pizan's Cite des Dames / Margaret Brabant and Michael Brint.