The Critical Productivity of Anger in Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies.

A literary criticism of Christine de Pizan's "The Book of the City of Ladies" is presented which explores the critical role of anger as a transformative force in literature. Topics discussed include anger as a "thinking-feeling" capable of dismantling misogynistic representations, the reworking of medieval literary canon to challenge dominant discourses on women and the subversive use of allegory to critique societal power structures.