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Ovid and masculinity in English Renaissance literature

"Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace romantic ideals of courtship, civility, and friendship. Ovid's writing about masculinity, love, and desire shaped discourses of masculinity across a wide range of literary texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama. The book covers all major works by Ovid, in addition to Italian humanists Angelo Poliziano and Natale Conti, canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Milton, and lesser-known writers such as Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Richard Johnson, Robert Greene, John Marston, Thomas Heywood, and Francis Beaumont. Individual essays examine emasculation, abjection, pacifism, female masculinity, boys' masculinity, parody, hospitality, and protean Jewish masculinity. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature demonstrates how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English literature--how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms."--

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English
Pages
315

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2020, McGill-Queen's University Press
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Table of Contents

Ovid's Orpheus and the Soft Masculinity of English Poetics / Jenny C. Mann
Abject Authorship: A Portrait of the Artist in Ovid and his Renaissance Imitators / Catherine Bates
Ovid in Love and War: Pacifist Masculinity in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis / John S. Garrison
The Faerie Queene's Muses: Hermaphroditus, Masculine Education, and Ovidian Inspiration / Kyle Pivetti
The Birth of Tragedy: Milton, Ovidian Masculinity, and Poliziano's Orfeo / Ian Frederick Moulton
Ovid and Unheroic Masculinity in the Prose Romance of the English Renaissance / Goran Stanivukovic
After Ovid's Sappho: Muteness Envy, Female Masculinity, and the Ethics of Mutability / Melissa E. Sanchez
"Of Youth and Age": Ovid and Generational Masculinities in Ben Jonson's Poetaster (1602) / Liz Oakley-Brown
Making a Politic Gentleman: The First Ars amatoriain English / M.L. Stapleton
Boys to Men: Fashioning Masculinity and the Ovidian Epyllia / Sarah Carter
The Uncooked Goose: Ovid's Philemon, Milton's Adam, and the Transformation of Hospitable Manliness / Eric B. Song
Ovid's Proteus and the Figure of the Male Jew in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta / Lisa S. Starks.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Montreal, Kingston, London, Chicago

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Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/353
Library of Congress
PR428.M37 O95 2020

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1 online resource (vi, 315 pages)
Number of pages
315

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Open Library
OL44025917M
ISBN 10
0228004535, 0228004543
ISBN 13
9780228004530, 9780228004547
OCLC/WorldCat
1176464543

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