EARLY MODERN FRENCH WOMEN WRITERS:

SECONDARY STUDIES

(Compiled for the EMFWW Project by Anne E. Duggan, Mary Skemp and Michelle Miller)
Studies on Individual Writers (A-F)

  1. Christine, de Pizan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431
  2. Du Guillet, Pernette, 1520?-1545
  1. Christine, de Pizan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431
    There has been a boom in Christine de Pizan studies in the last twenty years. Several bibliographic guides are already available. Angus Kennedy has published an annotated bibliography, adding a supplement in 1994: Christine de Pizan. A Bibliographical Guide (London: Grant & Cutler, 1984, 1994). Edith Yenal has also reedited her Christine de Pizan: A Bibliography of Writings by her and about her (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1982, 1989). Kennedy's work covers material up to 1991. The following bibliography (under construction) will therefore deal primarily with articles and books published after 1991, while including a handful of seminal works published before that date. The first seven items which follow are of special interest as collections of essays that focus on Christine de Pizan. For Biographical information consult Charity Cannon Willard's Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Her Works. (MS)

    Collections of essays
    1. Brabant, Margaret, ed. Politics, Gender, and Genre: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.
    2. Desmond, Marilyn, ed. Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1998.
    3. Dulac, Liliane and Bernard Ribémont, eds. Une femme de lettres au Moyen Age: études autour de Christine de Pizan. Orléans: Paradigme, 1995.
    4. McLeod, Glenda K., ed. The Reception of Christine de Pizan from the Fifteenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries: Visitors to the City. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1991.
    5. Richards, Earl Jeffrey, ed. Christine de Pizan and Medieval French Lyric. Gainseville: U Press of Florida, 1998.
    6. Richards, Earl Jeffrey with Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno, eds. Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan. Athens: U of Georgia Press, 1992.
    7. Zimmerman, Margarete and Dina De Rentiis, eds. The City of Scholars: New Approaches to Christine de Pizan. New York: W. de Gruyter, 1994.
    Books
    1. Altmann, Barbara K. The Love Debate Poems of Christine de Pizan. Gainesville: U Press of Florida, 1998.
    2. Quilligan, Maureen. The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's Cité des Dames. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988.
    3. Willard, Charity Cannon. Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Her Works. New York: Persea Books, 1984.
    Articles
    1. Altmann, Barbara K. "Last Words: Reflections on a 'Lay mortel' and the Poetics of Lyric Sequences." French Studies: A Quarterly Review 50.4 (1996): 385-99.
    2. Angeli, Giovanna. "Figure della poverta da Boezio a Christine de Pizan." Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate 49 (1996): 142-60.
    3. Beer, Jeanette M. S. "Christine et les conventions dans le Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune: 'Abriger en parolles voires'." In Une Femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Etude autour de Christine de Pizan. Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont, eds. Orleans: Paradigme, 1995. 349-56.
    4. Benkov, Edith Joyce. "The Coming to Writing: Auctoritas and Authority in Christine de Pizan." Le Moyen Français 35-36 (1994-1995): 33-48.
    5. Blanchard, Joel. "Christine de Pizan: Tradition, expérience et traduction." Romania: Revue Consacrée à l'Etude des Langues et des Littératures Romanes 111.1-2 (1990): 200-35.
    6. ---. "Christine de Pizan: Une Laique au pays des clercs." In Et c'est la fin pour quoy sommes ensemble: Hommage à Jean Dufournet professeur à la Sorbonne. Jean-Claude Aubailly, Emmanuele Baumgartner, Francis Dubost, Liliane Dulac, Marcel Faure, René Martin, eds. Paris: Champion, 1993. 215-26.
    7. Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate. "Christine de Pizan and the Mysogynistic Tradition." Romanic Review 81 (1990): 279-92.
    8. ---. "'Femme de corps et femme par sens': Christine de Pizan's Saintly Women." Romanic Review 87.2 (1996): 157-75.
    9. Bordessoule, Nadine. " La Voix engloutie: Représentations de l'avalement du narrateur chez Christine de Pizan et François Rabelais." Constructions (Constructions) 9 (1994): 61-70
    10. Brook, Leslie C. "Christine de Pisan, Heloise, and Abelard's Holy Women." Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie 109.5-6 (1993): 556-63.
    11. Brownlee, Kevin. "Christine de Pizan's Canonical Authors: The Special Case of Boccaccio." Comparative Literature Studies 32.2 (1995): 244-61.
    12. ---. "Cultural Comparison: Crusade as Construct in Late Medieval France." L'Esprit Créateur 32.3 (1992): 13-24.
    13. ---. "Discourses of the Self: Christine de Pizan and the Romance of the Rose." In Rethinking the Romance of the Rose: Text, Image, Reception. Kevin Brownlee and Sylvia Huot, eds. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1992. 234-61.
    14. ---, "Il Decameron di Boccaccio e la Cité des dames di Christine de Pizan: Modelli e contro-modelli." Giovanna Calvino, tr. Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-1992): 233-51.
    15. ---. "Le Moi 'lyrique' et la généalogie littéraire: Christine de Pizan et Dante dans le Chemin de long estude." In Musique naturele: Interpretationen zur franzosischen Lyrik des Spatmittelalters. Wolf-Dieter Stempel, ed. Munich: Fink, 1995. 105-39.
    16. ---. "Literary Genealogy and the Problem of the Father: Christine de Pizan and Dante." In Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies. Theodore Cachey, Jr., ed. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 1995. 205-35.
    17. ---. "Rewriting Romance: Courtly Discourse and Auto-Citation in Christine de Pizan." In Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Jane Chance, ed. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996. 172-94
    18. ---. "Widowhood, Sexuality, and Gender in Christine de Pizan." Romanic Review 86.2 (1995): 339-53.
    19. Chance, Jane. "Gender Trouble in the Garden of Deduit: Christine de Pizan Translating the Rose." RLA: Romance Languages Annual 4 (1992): 20-28.
    20. Donovan, Michelle A. "Rewriting Hagiography: The Livre de la Cité des Dames." Women in French Studies 4 (1996): 14-26.
    21. Dulac, Liliane. "Authority in the Prose Treatises of Christine de Pizan: The Writer's Discourse and the Prince's Word." E. Jeffrey Richards, trans. In Politics, Gender, and Genre: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan. Boulder: Westview, 1992. 129-40.
    22. ---. "De l'art de la digression dans Le Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V de Christine de Pizan." Revue des Langues Romanes 97.1 (1993): 115-26.
    23. ---. "Mystical Inspiration and Political Knowledge: Advice to Widows from Francesco da Barberino and Christine de Pizan." Thelma Fenster, trans. In Upon My Husband's Death: Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe. Louise Mirrer, ed. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1992. 223-58.
    24. ---. "Les Ouvertures closes dans le Livre de la Cité des Dames de Christine de Pizan: Le Topos du 'veuvage qualifiant'." In Vers un thésaurus informatisé: Topique des ouvertures narratives avant 1800. Pierre Rodriguez and Michel Weil, eds. Montpellier: Centre d'Etude du Dix-Huitième Siècle de Montpellier, Univ. Paul Valéry, 1990. 35-45.
    25. ---. " The Representation and Functions of Feminine Speech in Christine de Pizan's Livre des trois vertus." Christine Reno, trans. In Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan. Earl Jeffrey Richards, ed. Athens: U of Georgia Press, 1992. 13-22.
    26. Ellis, Roger. "Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Hoccleve: The Letter of Cupid." In Essays on Thomas Hoccleve. Catherine Batt, ed. Turnhout: Brepols, 1996. 19-54.
    27. Enders, Jody. "The Feminist Mnemonics of Christine de Pizan." Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History 55.3 (1994): 231-49.
    28. Fraioli, Deborah. "Why Joan of Arc Never Became an Amazon." In Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc. Bonnie Wheeler and Charles T. Wood, eds. New York, NY: Garland, 1996. 189-204.
    29. Freccero, Carla. "Gender Ideologies, Women Writers, and the Problem of Patronage in Early Modern Italy and France: Issues and Frameworks." In Reading the Renaissance: Culture, Poetics, and Drama. New York, NY: Garland, 1996. 65-74.
    30. Green, Karen. "Christine de Pisan and Thomas Hobbes." Philosophical Quarterly 44.177 (1994): 456-75.
    31. Hall, Colette. "The Genealogy of an Idea: From La Cité des dames to Le Fort inexpugnable de l'honneur du sexe feminin." Fifteenth-Century Studies 22 (1996): 109-18.
    32. Hauck, Johannes. "Der notwendige 'descort' der hofischen Liebenden: Zur Liebeslyrik von Christine de Pizan." In Musique naturele: Interpretationen zur franzosischen Lyrik des Spatmittelalters. Wolf-Dieter, ed. Munich: Fink, 1995|. 211-59.
    33. Ho, Cynthia. "Communal and Individual Autobiography in Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of the Ladies." CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 57.1 (1994): 31-40.
    34. Holguera Fanega, Maria Angela. "Christine de Pisan: La autobiografia femenina en la Edad Media." In Escritura autobiografica: Actas del II seminario internacional del instituto de semiotica literaria y teatral. Jose Romera Castillo, ed. Madrid: Visor, 1993. 259-65.
    35. Kelly, Joan. "Early Feminist Theory and the Querelle des Femmes, 1400-1789." Signs 8 (1982): 4-28.
    36. Kempton, Daniel. "Christine de Pizan's Cité des dames and Tresor de la cité: Toward a Feminist Scriptural Practice." In Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women. Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 15-37.
    37. Kolve, V. A. "The Annunciation to Christine: Authorial Empowerment in The Book of the City of Ladies." In Iconography at the Crossroads. Brendan Cassidy, ed. Princeton U., Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton Univ., 1993. 172-96.
    38. Krueger, Roberta L. "Chascune selon son estat: Women's Education and Social Class in the Conduct Books of Christine de Pizan and Anne de France." Papers on Seventeenth Century Literature 24.46 (1997): 19-34.
    39. Laennec, Christine Moneera. "Christine Antygrafe: Authorial Ambivalence in the Works of Christine de Pizan." In Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women. Carol Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, eds. Albany: State U of New York P, 1993. 35-49.
    40. ---. Unladylike Polemics: Christine de Pizan's Strategies of Attack and Defense. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 12.1 (1993): 47-59.
    41. Laird, Judith. "Good Women and Bonnes Dames: Virtuous Females in Chaucer and Christine de Pizan." The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism. 30. 1 (1995): 58-70.
    42. Lutkus, Anne D. "PR pas PC: Christine de Pizan's Pro-Joan Propaganda." In Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc. Bonnie Wheeler and Charles Wood, eds. New York, N.Y.: Garland, 1996. 145-60
    43. Lynn, Therese Ballet. "Women as Outsiders: The Poet and the Warrior Christine De Pizan and Joan of Arc." In Selected Essays from the International Conference on The Outsider 1988. John Michael Crafton, ed. Carrollton: West Georgia Coll., 1990. 30-37.
    44. Mahoney, Dhira B. "Middle English Regenderings of Christine de Pizan."In The Medieval Opus: Imitation, Rewriting, and Transmission in the French Tradition. Douglas Kelly, ed. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. 405-27.
    45. McRae, Laura Kathryn. "Interpretation and the Acts of Reading and Writing in Christine de Pisan's Livre de la Cité des Dames." Romanic Review 82.4 (1991): 412-33.
    46. McWebb, Christine. "Joan of Arc and Christine de Pizan: The Symbiosis of Two Warriors in the Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc." In Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc. Eds. Bonnie Wheeler and Charles Wood. New York, NY: Garland, 1996. 133-44.
    47. ---. "La Mythologie révisioniste chez Christine de Pizan." Women in French Studies 4 (1996): 27-39.
    48. Meale, Carol M. "Legends of Good Women in the European Middle Ages." Archiv fur das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 229.1 (1992): 55-70.
    49. Nichols, Stephen G. "Prophetic Discourse: St. Augustine to Christine de Pizan." In The Bible in the Middle Ages: Its Influence on Literature and Art. Bernard S. Levy, ed. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992. 51-76.|
    50. Nouvet, Claire. "Writing (in) Fear." In Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Jane Chance, ed. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996. 279-30.
    51. O'Brien, Dennis J. "Warrior Queen: The Character of Zenobia According to Giovanni Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, and Sir Thomas Elyot." Medieval Perspectives 8 (1993): 53-68.
    52. Oestreich, Donna J. " Christine de Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies: Paradigmatic Participation and Eschewal." In Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages. Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Dallas: Academia, 1993, 253-75.
    53. Paden, William D. "Christine de Pizan as a Reader of the Medieval Pastourelle." In Conjunctures. Medieval Studies in Honor of Douglas Kelly. Keith Busby and Norris Lacy, eds. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. 387-405.
    54. Paupert, Anne. "Le 'Je' lyrique féminin dans l'oeuvre poétique de Christine de Pizan." In . Jean-Claude Aubailly, Emmanuele Baumgartner, Francis Dubost, Liliane Dulac, Marcel Faure, René Martin, eds. Paris: Champion, 1993. 1057-71.
    55. ---. The Name of the Author: Self-Representation in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames." Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance 4.1 (1992): 201-28.
    56. ---. "Translating Dismemberment: Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan." Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-1992): 253-66.
    57. Redfern, Jenny R. "Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies: A Medieval Rhetorician and Her Rhetoric." In Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Andrea A, Lunsford and James J. Murphy, eds. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 73-92.|
    58. Richards, Earl Jeffrey. "Rejecting Essentialism and Gendered Writing: The Case of Christine de Pizan." In Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Jane Chance, ed. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996. 96-131.
    59. ---. "'Seullette a part' - The 'Little Woman on the Sidelines' Takes Up Her Pen: The Letters of Christine de Pizan." In Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre. Karen Cherawatuk and Ulrike Withaus, eds. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. 139-70.
    60. Sasaki, Shigemi. "Chateaumorant et Le Chemin de Christine de Pizan: A propos des 'ruines' de Constantinople." In Et c'est la fin pour quoy sommes ensemble: Hommage à Jean Dufournet professeur à la Sorbonne. Jean-Claude Aubailly, Emmanuele Baumgartner, Francis Dubost, Liliane Dulac, Marcel Faure, René Martin, eds. Paris: Champion, 1993. 1261-70.
    61. Semple, Benjamin. "The Consolation of a Woman Writer: Christine de Pizan's Use of Boethius in Lavision-Christine." In Women, the Book and the Worldly. Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor, eds. Cambridge, Eng.: Brewer, 1995. 39-48.
    62. ---. "The Male Psyche and the Female Sacred Body in Marie de France and Christine de Pizan." Yale French Studies 86 (1994): 164-86.
    63. Skemp, Mary L. "Autobiography as Authority in Lavision-Christine." Le Moyen Francais 35-36 (1994-1995): 17-31.
    64. Solterer, Helen. "Flaming Words: Verbal Violence and Gender in Premodern Paris." Romanic Review 86.2 (1995): 355-78.
    65. Stakel, Susan. " Structural Convergence of Pilgrimage and Dream-Vision in Christine de Pizan." In Journeys Toward God: Pilgrimage and Crusade. Barbara N. Sargent-Baur, ed. Kalamazoo: Medieval Inst. Pubs., Western Michigan Univ., 1992. 195-203.
    66. Suard, Francois. "Christine de Pizan, Le Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc." In Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics. Rupert T. Pickens, ed. Kalamazoo: Medieval Inst. Pubs., Western Michigan Univ., 1993. 247-58.
    67. Suranyi, Anna. "A Fifteenth-Century Woman's Pathway to Fame: The Querelle de la Rose and the Literary Career of Christine de Pizan." Fifteenth-Century Studies 23 (1997): 204-21.
    68. Walters, Lori. "Boethius and the Triple Ending of the Cent Balades." French Studies: A Quarterly Review 50.2 (1996): 129-37. Willard, Charity Cannon. "Pilfering Vegetius? Christine de Pizan's Faits d'Armes et de Chevalerie." In Women, the Book and the Worldly." Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor, eds. Cambridge, Eng.: Brewer, 1995. 31-37.
    69. ---. "Une Source oubliée du voyage imaginaire de Christine de Pizan" In Et c'est la fin pour quoy sommes ensemble: Hommage à Jean Dufournet professeur à la Sorbonne. Jean-Claude Aubailly, Emmanuele Baumgartner, Francis Dubost, Liliane Dulac, Marcel Faure, René Martin, eds. Paris: Champion, 1993. 321-26.
    70. Wisman, Josette A. "Aspects socio-économiques du Livre des Trois Vertus de Christine de Pizan." Le Moyen Français 30 (1992): 27-44.
    71. ---. "Christine de Pizan and Arachne's Metamorphoses." Fifteenth-Century Studies 23 (1997): 138-51.
    72. ---. "Jacques Legrand, Christine de Pizan, et la question de la 'nouvelete'." Medium Aevum 63.1 (1994): 75-83.
    73. Zhang, Xiangyun. "Du miroir des princes au miroir des princesses: Rapport intertextuel entre deux livres de Christine de Pizan." Fifteenth-Century Studies 22 (1996): 55-67.



  2. Du Guillet, Pernette, 1520?-1545
    Interest in the works of Pernette du Guillet has increased significantly in the last 15 years. The following bibliography demonstrates the range of scholarship focused on her poetry. For biographical information, consult Marian Rothstein's article in French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook and Ann Rosalind Jones essay in Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. (MS)

    Books
    1. Ardouin, Paul. Pernette du Guillet: l'heureuse renaissante: miracle de l'amour, de la lumière et de la poésie. Paris: A.G. Nizet, 1991.
    2. ---. Maurice Scève, Pernette du Guillet, Louise Labé: l'amour à Lyons au temps de la Renaissance. A.G. Nizet, 1981.
    3. Aynard, Joseph. Les poètes lyonnais, précurseurs de la Pléiade: Maurice Scève, Louise Labé, Pernette du Guillet. Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1969.
    Articles
    1. Boney, Jan. "'Ardeur de veoir': Reading Knowledge in Pernette du Guillet's Rymes 30.4 (1990): 49-60.
    2. Bright, Francis T. "Language as Object: Gift-giving and Dialogue in Scève and Du Guillet." MIFLC Review 1 (1991): 48-57.
    3. Charpentier, Françoise. "Projet poétiques, travail poétique dans les Rymes de Pernette du Guillet: autour de trois quatrains." Mélanges offerts à Guy Demerson. Eds. F. Marotin and J.-P. Saint-Gerand. Paris: Champion, 1993. 143-155.
    4. Clark-Evans, Christine. "L'art et l'amour dans les Rymes de Pernette du Guillet." Le Moyen Français 35-36 (1996): 161-173.
    5. ---. "On the Communion of Women: Reading and Writing in the Poetry of Pernette du Guillet and Louise Labé." Proceedings of the PMR Conference 12-13 (1987-88): 67-80.
    6. Cottrell, Robert. "Pernette du Guillet and the Logic of Aggressivity." Writing the Renaissance: Essays of Sixteenth Century French Literature in Honor of Floyd Gray. Ed. Raymond La Charité. Lexington: French Forum, 1992. 73-113.
    7. DellaNeva, Joann. "'Mutare/Mutatis': Pernette du Guillet's Actaeon Myth and the Silencing of the Poetic Voice." Women in French Literature. Eds. M. Guggenheim and H. Peyre. Saratoga: Anma Libri, 1988. 47-55.
    8. Delaney, Susan. "Lyric Dialogue in the 'Ring' Poems of Pernette du Guillet and Maurice Scève." The French Review 68.e (1995): 822-829.
    9. Izzi, Liliane. "Lecture d'un dizain de Pernette du Guillet." Courrier du Centre Internationale Poétique. 200 (1993): 15-41.
    10. James, Karen Simroth. "On veult responce avoir: Pernette du Guillet's Dialogic Poetics." A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bahktin. Eds. K. Hohne and H. Wussow. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. 171-197.
    11. ---. "Pernette du Guillet: Spiritual Union and Poetic Distance." French Literature Series 16 (1989): 27-37.
    12. Jones, Ann Rosalind. "Assimilation with a Difference: Renaissance Women Poets and Literary Influence." Yale French Studies 62 (1981): 135-153.
    13. ---. "Surprising Frame: Renaissance Gender Ideologies and Women's Lyric." The Poetics of Gender Eds. N. Miller and C. Heilbrun. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. 74-95.
    14. Lloyd-Jones, Kenneth. "Writing the Language of Love: Lyonnais Poetry and the Portrayal of Passion." RLA: Romance Language Annual 7 (1995): 112-119.
    15. Mathieu-Castellani, Gisèle. "Parole d'écho: Pernette au miroir des Rymes." L'Esprit Créateur 30.4 (1990): 61-67.
    16. Miller, Joyce. "In the Margins of Amatory Discourse: The responces of Pernette du Guillet." The Sixteenth Century Journal 24.2 (1993): 351-168.
    17. Winn, Colette. "Le Procès du Même et de l'Autre: Pernette du Guillet et le mythe ovidien de Diane et d'Acteon." Les Représentations de l'Autre au Moyen Age au XVIIeme siècle. Saint-Etienne: Université de Saint-Etienne, 1995. 263-271.
    18. Yandell, Cathy. "Carpe Diem, Poetic Immortality and the Gendered Ideology of Time." Renaissance Women Writers: French Texts/American Contexts. Detroit: Wayne State Univerity Press, 1994. 115-129.


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