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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Warren S., 1941-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

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

Satire, Latin--History and criticism.

Satire, Latin.

Satire, Greek--History and criticism.

Satire, Greek.

Women and literature--History--To 1500.

Women and literature.

Satire, Medieval--History and criticism.

Satire, Medieval.

Marriage in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786612594014

9781282594012

128259401X

9780472026296

0472026291

OCLC:

615633550