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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Warren S., 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Satire, Latin--History and criticism.

Satire, Latin.

Satire, Greek--History and criticism.

Satire, Greek.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Political and social views.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Characters--Women.

Women and literature--History--To 1500.

Women and literature.

Satire, Medieval--History and criticism.

Satire, Medieval.

Marriage in literature.

Women in literature.

History.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

xiv, 295 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2005]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0472114263

OCLC:

55729904