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Abandoned women, rewriting the classics in Dante, Boccaccio, & Chaucer, Suzanne C. Hagedorn

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

index present

non fiction

Abandoned women

bibliography

Suzanne C. Hagedorn

rewriting the classics in Dante, Boccaccio, & Chaucer

Introduction: Abandoned Women and Medieval Tradition -- Ovid's Heroides and the Latin Middle Ages -- Statius's Achilleid and Dante's Canto of Ulysses: fraud, rhetoric, and abandoned women -- Boccaccio's Teseo, Chaucer's Theseus: duplicity and desire -- Abandoned women and the dynamics of reader response: Boccaccio's Amorosa, Visione, and Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta -- Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: re-gendering abandonment -- Chaucer's Heroides: The legend of good women -- Afterword: The metamorphoses of Ovid's heroines -- Appendix: "Deidamia Achilli, " ed. Stohlmann