Sexuality and citizenship: metamorphosis in Elizabethan erotic verse
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1. Verfasser: Ellis, Jim (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto University of Toronto Press ©2003
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Beschreibung:Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of York, Toronto
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-284) and index
Introduction: Heterosexuality and Citizenship in the Elizabethan Epyllion -- - The Metamorphosis of the Subject -- - 'Bold sharpe Sophister[s]': Rhetoric and Education -- - 'More lovely than a man': The Metamorphosis of the Youth -- - 'Yon's one Italionate': Sodomy and Literary History -- - 'The Thracian fields and company of men': The Erotics of Political Fraternity -- - 'Riot, revelling and rapes': Sexual Violence and the Nation -- - Conclusion: Nymphs and Tobacconalias
"Based for the most part on Ovid's Metamorphoses, epyllia retell stories of the dalliances of gods and mortals, most often concerning the transformation of beautiful youths. This short-lived genre flourished and died in England in the 1590s. Epyllia were produced mainly by and for the young men of the Inns of Court, where the ambitious came to study law and to sample the pleasures London had to offer. Jim Ellis provides detailed readings of fifteen examples of the epyllion, considering the poems in their cultural milieu and arguing that these myths of the transformations of young men are at the same time stories of sexual, social, and political metamorphoses." "Examining both the most famous (Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Marlowe's Hero and Leander) and some of the more obscure examples of the genre (Hiren, the Fair Greek and The Metamorphosis of Tobacco), Ellis moves from considering fantasies of selfhood, through erotic relations with others, to literary affiliation, political relations, and finally to international issues such as exploration, settlement, and trade. Offering a revisionist account of the genre of the epyllion, Ellis transforms theories of sexuality, literature, and politics of the Elizabethan age, making an erudite and intriguing contribution to the field."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 292 pages)
ISBN:0802087353
1442679867
9780802087355
9781442679863

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