Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy

Contents

Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii iipart i. concepts, structures, and characters in roman love elegy 1. Introduction: Approaching Elegy 3 2. Men, Women, Poetry, and Money: The Material Bases and Social Backgrounds of Elegy 35 ipart ii. the material girls and the arguments of elegy; or, the docta puella reads elegy 3. Against the Greedy Girl; or, The Docta Puella Does Not Live by Elegy Alone 71 4. Characters, Complaints, and the Stations of the Lover; or, Adventures and Laments in Elegy 108 part iii. problems of gender and genre, text and audience, in roman love elegy 5. Necessary Female Beauty and Generic Male Resentment: Reading Elegy through Ovid 155 6. Poetry, Politics, Sex, Status: How the Docta Puella Serves Elegy 212 Appendix 225 Notes 239 Works Cited 323 General Index 337 Index Locorum 345 Contents This page intentionally left blank ...