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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964132703321

Titolo

Satiric advice on women and marriage : from Plautus to Chaucer / / Warren S. Smith, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2005

ISBN

9786612594014

9781282594012

128259401X

9780472026296

0472026291

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SmithWarren S. <1941->

Disciplina

877.009/3543

Soggetti

Satire, Latin - History and criticism

Satire, Greek - History and criticism

Women and literature - History - To 1500

Satire, Medieval - History and criticism

Marriage in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Satiric advice : serious or not? / Warren S. Smith -- In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley -- Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund -- The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. Smith -- Marriage and gender in Ovid's erotodidactic poetry / Karla Pollmann -- Advice on sex by the self-defeating satirists : Horace Sermones 1.2, Juvenal Satire 6, and Roman satiric writing / Warren S. Smith -- Chaste Artemis and lusty Aphrodite : the portrait of women and marriage in the Greek and Latin novels / Regine May -- Dissuading from marriage : Jerome and the asceticization of satire / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Change and continuity in pagan and Christian (invective) thought on women and marriage from antiquity to the Middle Ages / Barbara Feichtinger -- Walter as Valerius



: classical and Christian in the Dissuasio / Ralph Hanna III and Warren S. Smith -- Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages / P.G. Walsh -- The Wife of Bath and Dorigen debate Jerome / Warren S. Smith.

Sommario/riassunto

Scholars of classics and religion, mostly British or American, sample satiric attitudes about women and marriage written in Latin from about 200 BC through Walter Map in the 12th century, with two closing chapters on Chaucer writing in Middle English during the 14th. Among their topics are Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage, a