Title Reading Dido : Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages) Series Medieval Cultures Medieval cultures. Contents Preface; Abbreviations; 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; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index Summary Marilynn Desmond recovers an alternative Virgil from historical tradition and provides a new model for reading the Aeneid. Following the figure of Dido as she emerges from ancient historical and literary texts and circulates in medieval textual cultures, Reading Dido offers the modern reader a series of countertraditions that support feminist, anti-homophobic, and postcolonial interpretive gestures Notes Print version record Subject Virgil. Aeneis. SUBJECT Aeneis (Virgil) fast Subject English literature -- Roman influences. English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. Dido (Legendary character) in literature Literature, Medieval -- Roman influences Sex role in literature. Queens in literature. Dido (Legendary character) in literature English literature -- Middle English English literature -- Roman influences French literature Literature Literature, Medieval Literature, Medieval -- Roman influences Queens in literature Sex role in literature SUBJECT Carthage (Extinct city) -- In literature Subject Tunisia -- Carthage (Extinct city) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780816685042 0816685045

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