TY - BOOK AU - James,Sharon L. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Learned girls and male persuasion: gender and reading in Roman love elegy T2 - Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature AV - PA6059.E6 J36 2003eb U1 - 871/.01093543 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Elegiac poetry, Latin KW - History and criticism KW - Love poetry, Latin KW - Man-woman relationships in literature KW - Women KW - Books and reading KW - Rome KW - Women and literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - Persuasion (Rhetoric) KW - Women in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10048953 ER -