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In this book, Marilynn Desmond reveals how a constructed and mediated tradition of reading Virgil has conditioned various interpretations among readers responding to medieval cultural and literary texts.

Table of Contents
Gender and the politics of reading Virgil; Dux femina facti - Virgil's Dido in the historical context; Dido as libido - from Augustine to Dante; Dido and dynastic erasure in courtly romances and the structures of history; Sely Dido and the Chaucerian gaze; Dido's double wound in Caxton's Eneydos and Gavin Douglas' Endeados; Christine de Pizan's feminist self-fashioning and the invention of Dido.

Reading Dido Gender Textuality and the Medieval

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      Publisher University of Minnesota Press
      Published 7 October 1994
      ISBN-13 9780816622474
      978-0816622474
      ISBN-10 0816622477

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this book, Marilynn Desmond reveals how a constructed and mediated tradition of reading Virgil has conditioned various interpretations among readers responding to medieval cultural and literary texts.

      Table of Contents
      Gender and the politics of reading Virgil; Dux femina facti - Virgil's Dido in the historical context; Dido as libido - from Augustine to Dante; Dido and dynastic erasure in courtly romances and the structures of history; Sely Dido and the Chaucerian gaze; Dido's double wound in Caxton's Eneydos and Gavin Douglas' Endeados; Christine de Pizan's feminist self-fashioning and the invention of Dido.

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