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Book SynopsisThis collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers' reworking of Ovid's texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Ovid and the Renaissance Body Goran V. Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s University Part I: Identification and Desire Ovidian Subjectivities in Early Modern Lyric: Identification and Desire in Petrarch and Louise Labé Carla Freccero, University of California at Santa Cruz Imagining Heterosexuality in the Epyllia Jim Ellis, University of Calgary Inversion, Metamorphosis, and Sexual Difference: Female Same-Sex Desire in Ovid and Lyly Mark Dooley, University of Teesside A Garden of Her Own: Marvell’s Nymph and the Order of Nature Morgan Holmes, Wilfrid Laurier University ‘Male deformities’: Narcissus and the Reformation of Courtly Manners in Cynthia's Revels Mario Digangi, CUNY. Arms and the Women: The Ovidian Eroticism of Harington’s Ariosto Ian Frederick Moulton, Arizona State University Part II: Speech, Voice, and Embodiment Localizing Disembodied Voice in Sandys’s Englished ‘Narcissus and Echo’ Gina Bloom, Lawrence University The Ovidian Hermaphrodite: Moralizations by Peend and Spenser Michael Pincombe, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Ovid and the Dilemma of the Cuckold in English Renaissance Drama Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University Part Ill: Textualization Lyrical Wax in Ovid, Marlowe, and Donne Raphael Lyne, New Hall, Cambridge Engendering Metamorphoses: Milton and the Ovidian Corpus Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University The Girl He Left Behind: Ovidian imitatio and the Body of Echo in Spenser’s ‘Epithalamion’ Judith Deitch, University of Toronto ‘If that which is lost be not found’: Monumental Bodies, Spectacular Bodies in The Winter’s Tale Lori Humphrey Newcomb, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Afterword Valerie Traub, University of Michigan Contributors Index
