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The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames"

By Maureen Quilligan

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781501729560
DOI
10.7591/9781501729560
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33846206 bytes)
Pages
312\310
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 14:40:24

Description

The first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan (1363-1431) was widowed at age twenty-five and supported herself and her family by enlisting powerful patrons for her poetry. Her Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is the earliest European work on women's history by a woman. An allegorical poem that revises masculine traditions, it asserts and defends the authority of women in general and of its author in particular. In this generously illustrated book, Maureen Quilligan provides a persuasive and penetrating interpretation of the Cité.

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