N2 - Known for her detective fiction, Dorothy L. T2 - Authority, Gender, and Dante in Dorothy L. This chapter thus reveals a feminist function of fantasies of the Middle Ages in the modern scholarly imaginary.',
This chapter reads these fantasies not as transparent escapism from a troubled personal life but, in conjunction with her feminist essays and treatment of the complex sexual politics of Dante Dante by modelling alternative relations with medieval authority. In her letters and lectures, she constructed vivid fantasies of Dante as a living man, centering particularly around her readings of a controversial erotic canzone. Her Dante, read by millions, was a fellow master of story-telling: funny, self-deprecating, passionate.
Sayers – having received early training in medieval continental romance and languages –dedicated the final decade of her life to her true passion project: her Penguin translation of The Divine Comedy.
Abstract = 'Known for her detective fiction, Dorothy L.
