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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812515503321

Autore

Reid Lindsay Ann <1981->

Titolo

Ovidian bibliofictions and the Tudor book : metamorphosing classical heroines in late medieval and Renaissance England / / Lindsay Ann Reid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9781409457400

1-315-59929-5

0-367-88237-X

1-317-08446-2

1-317-08445-4

1-4094-5736-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Material Readings in Early Modern Culture

Disciplina

821/.209

Soggetti

English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Heroines in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Note on Texts; 1 Introduction: Ovidian Bibliofictions and Tudor Books; 2 "If All the Yearth Wer Parchment Scribable": Ovidian Heroines in the Querelle des Femmes; 3 "Hir Name, Allas! Is Publisshed So Wyde"; 4 "Both False and Also True": Ovidian Heroines, Epistolary Elegy, and Fictionalized Materiality; 5 "Our Sainted Legendarie": The Anglo-Ovidian Heroines; Appendix: Latin Editions of Ovid in Tudor England; Early Printed Materials Consulted; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the postclassical discourses that Ovid's poetry stimulated, this study explores how Ovid's English protégés - including Isabella Whitney, William Shakespeare and Michael Drayton - replicated and expanded upon the Roman poet's distinctive and frequently remarked 'bookishness' in their own adaptations of his works. Reid 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 imitatio.