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Women, Reading, and Literary Culture: The Reception of Christine de Pizan in Fifteenth-Century England
Title:
Women, Reading, and Literary Culture: The Reception of Christine de Pizan in Fifteenth-Century England
Author:
Watson, Sarah Wilma, author.
ISBN:
9780438036574
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Physical Description:
1 electronic resource (313 pages)
General Note:
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: David Wallace Committee members: Kevin Brownlee; Emily Steiner.
Abstract:
This dissertation challenges the concept of literary communities defined by national boundaries, arguing that men and women in late-medieval England imagined themselves as members of a transcontinental, multilingual reading group. To this end, I investigate the cross-channel circulation of works by Christine de Pizan (1364-c.1430), a Parisian author who is often described as the first professional woman writer in the West. Through extensive archival research in London, Oxford, Cambridge, and New York, I uncover Christine de Pizan's influence on English literary history, demonstrating how Christine's love lyrics, political manuals, and proto-feminist texts were read and shared among readers in England. I consider the insular reception of Christine's texts as part of a larger translatio of French literature to England, a cultural exchange facilitated by the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) and mediated by the physical transfer of books and people across the English Channel. Through a study of this mobile literature, my dissertation examines a transcontinental community of women readers, arguing that these readers were joined not only by their common experiences as women but also by a shared identity as members of an international aristocratic society.
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School code: 0175
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Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| XX(679719.1) | 679719-1001 | Proquest E-Thesis Collection | Searching... |
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