Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid
Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid
by Marilynn Desmond
University of Minnesota Press, 1994
Paper: 978-0-8166-2247-4
Library of Congress Classification PR127.D47 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93351
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Introduction: Gender and the Politics of Reading Virgil
- 1.
- Dux Femina Facti: Virgil's Dido in the Historical Context
- 2.
- Dido as Libido: From Augustine to Dante
- 3.
- Dido in Courtly Romance and the Structures of History
- 4.
- Sely Dido and the Chaucerian Gaze
- 5.
- Dido's Double Wound in Caxton's Eneydos and Gavin Douglas's Eneados
- 6.
- Christine de Pizan's Feminist Self-Fashioning and the Invention of Dido
- Epilogue: On Reading Dido