Sexuality and citizenship : metamorphosis in Elizabethan erotic verse /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ellis, Jim, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2003]
Series:Phoenix Supplementary Volumes.
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Appreciation > England.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Metamorphoses.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Influence.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
1500-1700
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Sex in literature.
Erotic poetry, English > History and criticism.
English poetry > Roman influences.
Metamorphosis in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Young men in literature.
Poésie anglaise > 1500-1700 (Moderne) > Histoire et critique.
Poésie érotique anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
Métamorphose (Biologie) dans la littérature.
Jeunes hommes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Art appreciation.
English poetry > Early modern.
Erotic poetry, English.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
England.
Electronic books.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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