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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814091803321

Autore

Wyke Maria

Titolo

The Roman mistress [[electronic resource] ] : ancient and modern representations / / Maria Wyke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-383-00598-2

1-281-34614-4

0-19-154140-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

871.01093543082

Soggetti

Love poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Mistresses - Rome

Women in literature

Sex role in literature

Sex role in motion pictures

Love poetry, Latin - History and criticism - Rome

Man-woman relationships in motion pictures - Rome

Man-woman relationships in literature - Rome

Feminism and literature

Feminism and motion pictures

Women and literature

Women in motion pictures

Mistresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; I. LOVE POETRY; 1. Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy; 2. Written Women: Propertius' scripta puella (2. 10-13); 3. The Elegiac Woman at Rome: Propertius Book 4; 4. Reading Female Flesh: Ovid Amores 3. 1; 5. Taking the Woman's Part: Gender and Scholarship on Love Elegy; II. RECEPTION; 6. Meretrix regina: Augustan Cleopatras; 7. Oriental Vamp; Cleopatra 1910's; 8. Glamour Girl: Cleopatra 1930's-1960's; 9. Meretrix Augusta: Messalina 1870's-1920's; 10. Suburban Feminist: Messalina 1930's-1970's



Sommario/riassunto

In a highly accessible style, 'The Roman Mistress' makes an important and original contribution simultaneously to feminist scholarship on antiquity, the classical tradition and cultural studies.