Learned girls and male persuasion

Description

"This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century B.C.E. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed - the docta puella, or learned girl, the poet's beloved. By interpreting the poetry not, as has always been done, from the stance of the elite male writers - as plaint and confession - but rather from the viewpoint of the women - thus as persuasion and attempted manipulation - James reveals strategies and substance that no one has listened for before. Her innovative study yields important new insights into both the literary and sociopolitical contexts of Roman love elegy."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

Other Editions

• Learned girls and male persuasion: gender and reading in Roman love elegyUniversity of California Press2002-01-01
• Learned girls and male persuasionUniversity of California Press2003