A01=Maureen Quilligan
Author_Maureen Quilligan
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Product details
- ISBN 9780801497889
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 1992
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan (1363-1431) was widowed at age twenty-five and supported herself and her family by enlisting powerful patrons for her poetry. Her Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is the earliest European work on women's history by a woman. An allegorical poem that revises masculine traditions, it asserts and defends the authority of women in general and of its author in particular. In this generously illustrated book, Maureen Quilligan provides a persuasive and penetrating interpretation of the Cité.
Maureen Quilligan is Howard E. and Judith Steinberg Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's Cité des Dames.
