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| Abbreviations | |
| A Chronology of Major Medieval Mythographers | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: "Fables and Swich Wrecchednesse" | p. 1 |
| Mythography and Female Authority in the Dream Visions | |
| "A wonder thing": The Descensus ad Inferos of the Female Heroes Alcyone and Alceste | p. 19 |
| "Geffrey" as Dido, Ganymede, "Marcia": Mythographic and Gender Parody in the Hous of Fame | p. 45 |
| Venus Contextualized: The Mythographic Authority of the Body in The Parlement of Foules | p. 83 |
| Mythographic Cross-Gendering in the Troilus | |
| The Narrator as Mythographic Glossator: The Rape of Criseyde | p. 107 |
| Subversive Mythography: The Speaker as Feminized Subject in the Canterbury Tales | |
| Zephirus, Rape, and Saint Thomas a Becket: The Political Vernacular | p. 171 |
| Feminizing Theseus in the Knight's Tale: The Victory of Pallas Athena over Mars | p. 184 |
| Maister Alisoun's Feminist Self-Mythography | p. 214 |
| The Merchant's De Nuptiis Maii et Januarii | p. 232 |
| The Franklin's Derke Fantasye: Squire Aurelius as Ekko, Lady Dorigen as Narcissus's Image | p. 249 |
| Conclusion: The Artist Pygmalion, the Subject Chaucer, and Self-Seduction | p. 263 |
| Notes | p. 283 |
| Index | p. 353 |
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