Learned girls and male persuasion : gender and reading in Roman love elegy
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Learned girls and male persuasion : gender and reading in Roman love elegy
（The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature）
University of California Press, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and indexes
Contents of Works
- 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
