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

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

Quilligan, Maureen

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Literary CriticismGeneral PoetryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0801497884
ISBN13: 9780801497889
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Feb 26 1992
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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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