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Reading Dido, gender, textuality, and the medieval Aeneid, Marilynn Desmond

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Reading Dido, gender, textuality, and the medieval Aeneid, Marilynn Desmond
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index
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Reading Dido
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Marilynn Desmond
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Medieval cultures, v. 8
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gender, textuality, and the medieval Aeneid
Table Of 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
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