Learned girls and male persuasion : gender and reading in Roman love elegy / Sharon L. James.
| Author/creator |
James, Sharon L. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, |
| Description | xv, 350 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
| Contents | Pt. 1 -- Concepts, structures, and characters in Roman love elegy -- Introduction: approaching elegy -- Men, women, poetry, and money: the material bases and social backgrounds of elegy -- Pt. 2 -- The material girls and the arguments of elegy; or, The docta puella reads elegy -- Against the greedy girl; or, The docta puella does not live by elegy alone -- Characters, complaints, and the stations of the lover; or, Adventures and laments in elegy -- Pt. 3 -- Problems of gender and genre, text and audience, in Roman love elegy -- Necessary female beauty and generic male resentment: reading elegy through Ovid -- Poetry, politics, sex, status: how the docta puella serves elegy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002010143 |
| ISBN | 0520233816 (alk. paper) |
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