Contents; List of Plates; Conventions of Transcription; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Haunting Text and Paratext: Performing Intertextuality in Querelle Debates; 2. Performing Conflict: The Drama of Debate; 3. Representing Women in the Querelle des femmes; Conclusion: A New Shelf-Life?; Appendix 1. Chronologies of Querelle des femmes Texts; Appendix 2. Lists of Manuscripts, Incunables, and Early Printed Editions; References; Index
Summary
Helen Swift examines late-medieval and early-modern French imaginative literature written by men in defence of women of great popularity in its own time - including catalogues of virtuous women, allegorical narratives, and debate poems. - ;This book explores the poetics of literary defences of women written by men in late-medieval and early-modern France. It fills an important lacuna in studies of this polemic in imaginative literature by bridging the gap between Christine de Pizan and a later generation of women writers and male, Neo-Platonist writers who have recently all received due critic
