Ovid in French : reception by women from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Helena Taylor and Fiona Cox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Helena, 1985- editor.

Cox, Fiona, editor.

Series:

Classical presences.

Oxford scholarship online.

Classical presences

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--Appreciation--France--History.

Latin poetry.

Latin poetry--Appreciation--French-speaking countries--History.

Women and literature--France--History.

Women and literature.

Women and literature--French-speaking countries--History.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Appreciation--France.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Appreciation--French-speaking countries.

France.

French-speaking countries.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Essays.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Ovid in French' examines the ways Ovid's diverse ouvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by French and Francophone women. The chapters bring an array of critical approaches to bear on a range of authors from the Renaissance to the present.

Contents:

Introduction / Fiona Cox and Helena Taylor

Women's wit : skirting Ovid in Renaissance France / Emma Herdman

Madeleine de l'Aubespine's translation of Heroides 2 / Jessica DeVos

Belle and Fidèlea? : women translating Ovid in early modern France

Defending Phaedra's glory : the corrective translation of Ovid's fourth letter by Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier in Les Epîtres Héroïques (1732) / Océane Puche ; translated by Helena Taylor

The letters from Julia to Ovid by Charlotte Antoinette de Bressey, Marquise of Lezay-Marnésia / Séverine Clément-Tarantino ; translated by Eleanor Hodgson

Metempsychosis, Sappho, and adultery-laws : Ovidian moments in the career of Constance de Salm (1767-1845) / Thea S. Thorsen

Corinne at the Capitol / Fiona Cox

Playful metamorphoses : George Sand's Ovidian affinities / James Illingworth - Cahun : an Ovidian Tiresias for modern times / Catherine Burke

Marguerite Yourcenar's feminism and the ambivalence of Ovidian models in Feux / Florence Klein, translated by Eleanor Hodgson

Kristeva's Ovidian world : 'Un monde en mutation' / Kathleen Hamel

'Il faut raconter mon long parcours' : Ovidian presences in the Francophone world / Fiona Cox

Epilogue : the soul that is chewed up / Marie Cosnay ; translated by Fiona Cox

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Taylor, Helena Ovid in French

ISBN:

0-19-191620-X

0-19-264867-5

0-19-264868-3