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Contents Preface xi Abbreviations xv Introduction Gender and the Politics of Reading Virgil 1 1. Dux Femina Facti: Virgil's Dido in the Historical Context 23 2. Dido as Libido: From Augustine to Dante 74 3. Dido in Courtly Romance and the Structures of History 99 4. Sely Dido and the Chaucerian Gaze 128 5. Dido's Double Wound in Caxton's Eneydos and Gavin Douglas's Eneados 163 6. Christine de Pizan's Feminist Self-Fashioning and the Invention of Dido 195 Epilogue On Reading Dido 225 Notes 229 Select Bibliography 281 Index 289 IX This page intentionally left blank ...

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