Abandoned Women: Rewriting the Classics in Dante, Boccaccio, & ChaucerUniversity 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. |
Contents
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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