Learned girls and male persuasion : gender and reading in Roman love elegy / Sharon L. James.

SeriesJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. ^A512030
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and indexes.
LCCN 2002010143
ISBN0520233816 (alk. paper)

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