Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book: Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England

ISBN-13: 9780367882372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

Lindsay Ann Reid

Opis

The author analyzes how Ovidian-inspired mythologies and bibliographical aetiologies informed the sixteenth-century creation, reproduction, and representation of books, and provides alternative models for thinking about the dynamics of reception, adaptation, and imitation.

Spis treści

'If all the yearth wer parchment scribable': Ovidian heroines in the Querelle des Femmes.  'Hir name, allas!  Is publisshed so wyde': fama, gossip, and the dissemination of a pseudo-Ovidian heroine.  'Both false and also true': Ovidian heroines, epistolary elegy, and fictionalized materiality.  'Our sainted legendarie': the Anglo-Ovidian heroines. Appendix: Latin editions of Ovid in Tudor England.  Early printed materials consulted.

O autorze

Lindsay Ann Reid is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.