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The Latin Love Elegists
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Latin love elegy’s flourishing concurrent with Rome’s transition from Republic to Principate has remained an issue central to scholarship on the genre since the turn of the last millennium. This book addresses the Greco-Roman literary inheritance and Augustan socio-political context that paved the way for that flourishing, while examining the genre’s key elements and characters as illustrated in the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sulpicia. Special attention is paid to the gendered dynamics that govern the relationship between “poet-lover” (amator) and beloved and to the role of the poet as artist and creator of a “written girl” (scripta puella).
Hunter H. Gardner (Ph.D. 2005, University of North Carolina) is a Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of numerous articles on Latin elegy, has co-edited two essay collections, and written two monographs, including Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy (Oxford 2013).
"This volume admirably addresses these goals [of the series] (...) That is largely a consequence of Gardner’s laudably uncompromising approach to synthesizing the vast range of critical literature on Latin elegy of the last fifty years or so. (...) Gardner offers a rich and amply documented resource on Latin love elegy, especially in the fields of gender studies and sexuality. (...) Gardner helps the reader to follow the thematic threads running through the three major surviving elegists’ poetry. (...) . Inevitably, surveys such as this represent a snapshot of the state of criticism at a moment in time, which will pass, so readers would be advised to consult a copy soon.
Peter E. Knox in BMCR 2024.12.29\
Peter E. Knox in BMCR 2024.12.29\
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
1 Antecedents, Origins, Innovations
2 Playing the Gender Card: Augustan Love Elegy
3 (De)constructing the puella
4 Elegiac vulnerabilities: scripting desire in Augustan Rome
5 Receptions and New Directions
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
1 Antecedents, Origins, Innovations
2 Playing the Gender Card: Augustan Love Elegy
3 (De)constructing the puella
4 Elegiac vulnerabilities: scripting desire in Augustan Rome
5 Receptions and New Directions
Bibliography
Index
Ideal for graduate students and advanced undergraduates encountering Latin love elegy for the first time. Also useful for general audiences interested in gender in the ancient Mediterranean and Greco-Roman poetry.