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Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage : From Plautus to Chaucer.

Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, Warren S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Satiric advice : serious or not? / Warren S. Smith
  • In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley
  • Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund
  • The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. Smith
  • Marriage and gender in Ovid's erotodidactic poetry / Karla Pollmann
  • Advice on sex by the self-defeating satirists : Horace Sermones 1.2, Juvenal Satire 6, and Roman satiric writing / Warren S. Smith
  • Chaste Artemis and lusty Aphrodite : the portrait of women and marriage in the Greek and Latin novels / Regine May
  • Dissuading from marriage : Jerome and the asceticization of satire / Elizabeth A. Clark
  • Change and continuity in pagan and Christian (invective) thought on women and marriage from antiquity to the Middle Ages / Barbara Feichtinger
  • Walter as Valerius : classical and Christian in the Dissuasio / Ralph Hanna III and Warren S. Smith
  • Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages / P.G. Walsh
  • The Wife of Bath and Dorigen debate Jerome / Warren S. Smith.