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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. Epyllia were produced mainly by and for the youn...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ellis, Jim, 1964- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2003]
Collection:Phoenix Supplementary Volumes.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : heterosexuality and citizenship in the Elizabethan epyllion
  • The metamorphosis of the subject
  • 'Bold sharpe Sophister[s]' : rhetoric and education
  • 'More lovely than a man' : the metamorphosis of the youth
  • 'Yon's one Italionate' : sodomy and literary history
  • 'The Thracian fields and company of men' : the erotics of political fraternity
  • 'Riot, revelling and rapes' : sexual violence and the nation
  • Conclusion : nymphs and tobacconalias.