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

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, sonst sehr guter Zustand / dust jacket slightly rubbed, otherwise very good condition. - Medievalists have long been interested in the "abandoned woman," a figure traditionally used to examine the value of male heroism. Moving beyond previous studies, which have focused primarily on Virgil's Dido, Suzanne Hagedorn incorporates an array of primary texts which influenced and inspired medieval writers as they created their own poetic visions. Focusing on the vernacular works of Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer, she argues that revisiting the classical tradition of the abandoned woman enables these medieval authors to reconsider ancient epics and myths from a female perspective and question assumptions about gender roles in medieval literature. Hagedorn's careful examination of these ancient texts illuminates the complex web of allusions that link medieval authors to their literary predecessors. In essence, the author argues that the process of reading, reimagining, and reinscribing Ovid's Heroides in their own vernacular fictions teaches Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer how to write from a revisionist perspective and how to recast and reconsider epic history and mythology from women's viewpoints. Hagedorn further demonstrates that all three authors present remarkably powerful and sympathetic views of women in their works. Abandoned Women will be of interest to medievalists and non-medieval- ists alike, with an interest in the areas of medieval text reception, poetic tradition, comparative literature, and gender studies. / Contents Introduction Abandoned Women and Medieval Tradition one Ovid�s Heroides and the Latin Middle Ages two Statius�s Achilleid and Dante�s Canto of Ulysses Fraud, Rhetoric, and Abandoned Women three Boccaccio�s Teseo, Chaucer�s Theseus Duplicity and Desire four Abandoned Women and the Dynamics of Reader Response Boccaccio�s Amorosa Visione and Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta five Chaucer�s Troilus and Criseyde Re-gendering Abandonment six Chaucer�s Heroides The Legend of Good Women Afterword The Metamorphoses of Ovid�s Heroines Appendix �Deidamia Achilli," ed. Stohlmann Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780472113491