Learned girls and male persuasion gender and reading in Roman love elegy / [electronic resource] :
Sharon L. James.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- xv, 350 p.
- Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature .
- Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and indexes.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Elegiac poetry, Latin--History and criticism. Love poetry, Latin--History and criticism. Man-woman relationships in literature. Women--Books and reading--Rome. Women and literature--Rome. Books and reading--Rome. Sex role in literature. Persuasion (Rhetoric) Women in literature.