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Sexuality and Citizenship : Metamorphosis in Elizabethan Erotic Verse /

Based for the most part on Ovid's Metamorphoses, epyllia retell stories of the dalliances of gods and mortals, most often concerning the transformation of beautiful youths. This short-lived genre flourished and died in England in the 1590s. It was produced mainly by and for the young men of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ellis, Jim (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Heterosexuality and Citizenship in the Elizabethan Epyllion
  • 1. The Metamorphosis of the Subject
  • 2. 'Bold sharpe Sophisterfs]': Rhetoric and Education
  • 3. 'More lovely than a man': The Metamorphosis of the Youth
  • 4. 'Yon's one Italionate': Sodomy and Literary History
  • 5. The Thracian fields and company of men': The Erotics of Political Fraternity
  • 6. 'Riot, revelling and rapes': Sexual Violence and the Nation
  • Conclusion: Nymphs and Tobacconalias
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index