Abandoned Women: Rewriting the Classics in Dante, Boccaccio, & Chaucer

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University of Michigan Press, 2004 - 220 pages
Medievalists have long been interested in the "abandoned woman," a figure historically used to examine the value of traditional male heroism. Moving beyond previous studies which have focused primarily on Virgil's Dido, Suzanne Hagedorn focuses on the vernacular works of Dante, Bocaccio, and Chaucer, arguing that revisiting the classical tradition of the abandoned woman enables one to reconsider ancient epics and myths from a female perspective and question assumptions about gender roles in medieval literature.
Suzanne Hagedorn is Associate Professor of English at the College of William and Mary.
 

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Introduction
1
ONE Ovids Heroides and the Latin Middle Ages
21
Two Statiuss Achilleid and Dantes Canto of Ulysses
47
THREE Boccaccios Teseo Chaucers Theseus
75
FOUR Abandoned Women and the Dynamics of Reader Response
102
FIVE Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde
130
SIX Chaucers Heroides
159
The Metamorphoses of Ovids Heroines
187
Deidamia Achilli ed Stohlmann
193
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Suzanne Hagedorn is Associate Professor of English at the College of William and Mary.

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