Ovidian Transversions : : ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650 /

Ovidian Transversions : : ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650 / / Peggy McCracken, Valerie Traub, Patricia Badir.

Focuses on transversions of Ovid’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in both English and French literatureMedieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid’s tale of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid’s story...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Traub, Valerie,
Badir, Patricia,
McCracken, Peggy,
MitwirkendeR:
Badir, Patricia,
Billings, Laurel,
Dupas, Matthieu,
Eggert, Katherine,
Griffin, Miranda,
Lanser, Susan S.,
Lochrie, Karma,
Long, Kathleen Perry,
Mathie, Elizabeth,
McCracken, Peggy,
Traub, Valerie,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2019
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Conversions : CONV
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 29 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: Transversions of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’
  • 1. Metamorphosis as Supplement: Sexuality and History in the Ovide moralisé
  • 2. The Trans* Temporality of Lament: ‘Foolish’ Hope and Trans* Survival in the Ovide moralisé’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’
  • 3. Gower’s Riddles in ‘Iphis and Iante’
  • 4. Fortune’s Touch: Reading Transformation in Christine de Pizan’s Mutacion de Fortune
  • 5. Becoming Scattered: The Case of Iphis’s Trans*version and the Archipelogic of John Florio’s Worlde of Wordes
  • 6. Alchemy, Humanism and the Uses of Disknowledge in John Lyly’s Galatea
  • 7. The Problem with Love: Untoward Engagement and Humanist Pedagogy in Galatea
  • 8. Coastal Squeeze: Environmental Metamorphosis and Lyly’s Lincolnshire
  • 9. Illegible Bodies: Reading Intersex and Transgender in Early Modern France (the Case of Isaac de Benserade’s Iphis et Ianthe)
  • 10. Lesbianism in Benserade’s Iphis et Ianthe (1634): Gallantry and the Making of Heterosexuality in Seventeenth-Century France
  • 11. Changing the Ways of the World: Sex, Youth and Modernity in Benserade’s Iphis et Iante
  • Appendices: Translations and Images of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’
  • Index

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