Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance

Abstract

List of illustrations Preface 1. The displaced reader: the female audience of Old French romance 2. The question of women in Yvain and Le Chevalier de la Charrette 3. Playing to the ladies: chivalry and misogyny in Ipomedon, Le Chevalier ... l'Epee, and La Vengeance Raguidel 4. Women readers and the politics of gender in Le roman de Silence 5. Double jeopardy: the appropriation of women in four romances from the cycle de la gageure 6. Constructing sexual identities in Robert de Blois' didactic poetry 7. The reader as object of desire in Le roman du Castelain de Couci et de la dame de Fayel 8. A Woman's Response: Christine de Pizan's Le livre du Duc des Vrais Amans and the limits of romance Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.

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