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

By: James, Sharon L.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature: Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003Description: xv, 350 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 871/.01093543 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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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.

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