Lindsay Ann Reid

Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book

Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England

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Produktbeschreibung

The author analyzes how Ovidian-inspired mythologies and bibliographical aetiologies informed the sixteenth-century creation, reproduction, and representation of books, and provides alternative models for thinking about the dynamics of reception, adaptation, and imitation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9781409457350
• ISBN-10: 1409457354
• Artikelnr.: 45514341

Autorenporträt

Lindsay Ann Reid is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Inhaltsangabe

'If all the yearth wer parchment scribable': Ovidian heroines in the
Querelle des Femmes. 'Hir name, allas! Is publisshed so wyde': fama,
gossip, and the dissemination of a pseudo-Ovidian heroine. 'Both false and
also true': Ovidian heroines, epistolary elegy, and fictionalized
materiality. 'Our sainted legendarie': the Anglo-Ovidian heroines.
Appendix: Latin editions of Ovid in Tudor England. Early printed materials
consulted.