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Allegory of Female Authority

Maureen Quilligan
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      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Maureen Quilligan EAN: 9780801497889 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornell University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1992-02-26 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Europe, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Feminism and feminist theory, Social and cultural history

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      Maureen Quilligan is Howard E. and Judith Steinberg Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's Cité des Dames.
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Maureen Quilligan EAN: 9780801497889 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornell University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 1992-02-26 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Europe, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Feminism and feminist theory, Social and cultural history

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      Maureen Quilligan is Howard E. and Judith Steinberg Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's Cité des Dames.

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