Reading Dido : gender, textuality, and the medieval Aeneid / Marilynn Desmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desmond, Marilynn, 1952-

Series:

Medieval cultures ; v. 8.

Medieval cultures ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Roman influences.

English literature.

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

French literature--To 1500--History and criticism.

French literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Dido (Legendary character)--In literature.

Dido.

Literature, Medieval--Roman influences.

Sex role in literature.

Queens in literature.

Carthage (Extinct city)--In literature.

Carthage (Extinct city).

Virgil. Aeneis.

Virgil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minnepolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marilynn Desmond recovers an alternative Virgil from historical tradition and provides a new model for reading the Aeneid. Following the figure of Dido as she emerges from ancient historical and literary texts and circulates in medieval textual cultures, Reading Dido offers the modern reader a series of countertraditions that support feminist, anti-homophobic, and postcolonial interpretive gestures.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: Gender and the Politics of Reading Virgil; 1. Dux Femina Facti: Virgil's Dido in the Historical Context; 2. Dido as Libido: From Augustine to Dante; 3. Dido in Courtly Romance and the Structures of History; 4. Sely Dido and the Chaucerian Gaze; 5. Dido's Double Wound in Caxton's Eneydos and Gavin Douglas's Eneados; 6. Christine de Pizan's Feminist Self-Fashioning and the Invention of Dido; Epilogue: On Reading Dido; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8504-5

OCLC:

476093659