Abandoned women
Subtitle: rewriting the classics in Dante, Boccaccio, & Chaucer
By: Suzanne C. Hagedorn.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 -- Characters -- Women.; Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Characters -- Women.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Characters -- Women.; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D -- Characters -- Women.; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. -- Influence.; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Literature, Medieval -- Roman influences.; Women in literature.; Separation (Psychology) in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (Cornell University).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Abandoned Women and Medieval Tradition; title: Ovid's Heroides and the Latin Middle Ages; title: Statius's Achilleid and Dante's Canto of Ulysses: fraud, rhetoric, and abandoned women; title: Boccaccio's Teseo, Chaucer's Theseus: duplicity and desire; title: Abandoned women and the dynamics of reader response: Boccaccio's Amorosa, Visione, and Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta; title: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: re-gendering abandonment; title: Chaucer's Heroides: The legend of good women; title: Afterword: The metamorphoses of Ovid's heroines; title: Appendix: "Deidamia Achilli," ed. Stohlmann.