Ovid and masculinity in English Renaissance literature / edited by John S. Garrison and Goran Stanivukovic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stanivukovic, Goran V., editor.

Garrison, John S., 1970- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ovid.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 315 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace romantic ideals of courtship, civility, and friendship. Ovid's writing about masculinity, love, and desire shaped discourses of masculinity across a wide range of literary texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama. The book covers all major works by Ovid, in addition to Italian humanists Angelo Poliziano and Natale Conti, canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Milton, and lesser-known writers such as Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Richard Johnson, Robert Greene, John Marston, Thomas Heywood, and Francis Beaumont. Individual essays examine emasculation, abjection, pacifism, female masculinity, boys' masculinity, parody, hospitality, and protean Jewish masculinity. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature demonstrates how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature

Authority and Embodiment

Ovid's Orpheus and the Soft Masculinity of English Poetics

Abject Authorship: A Portrait of the Artist in Ovid and His Renaissance Imitators

Ovid in Love and War: Pacifist Masculinity in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

The Faerie Queene's Muses: “Hermaphrodites,„ Masculine Education, and Inspiration

Sexuality and Desire

The Birth of Tragedy: Milton, Ovidian Masculinity, and Poliziano's Orfeo

Ovid and Unheroic Masculinity in the Prose Romance of the English Renaissance

After Ovid's Sappho: Muteness Envy, Female Masculinity, and the Ethics of Mutability

Maturation of Youth

“Of Youth and Age„: Ovid and Generational Masculinities in Ben Jonson's Poetaster (1602)

Making a Politic Gentleman: The First Ars amatoria in English

Boys to Men: Fashioning Masculinity and Parody in the Ovidian Epyllia

The Body and Religion

The Uncooked Goose: Ovid's Philemon, Milton's Adam, and the Transformation of Hospitable Manliness

Ovid's Proteus and the Figure of the Male Jew in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta

Envoy

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228004530

0228004535

9780228004547

0228004543

OCLC:

1243321124