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Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book - Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book - Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
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Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book examines the historical
and the fictionalized reception of Ovid's poetry in the literature
and books of Tudor England. It does so through the study of a
particular set of Ovidian narratives-namely, those concerning the
protean heroines of the Heroides and Metamorphoses. In the late
medieval and Renaissance eras, Ovid's poetry stimulated the
vernacular imaginations of authors ranging from Geoffrey Chaucer
and John Gower to Isabella Whitney, William Shakespeare, and
Michael Drayton. Ovid's English proteges replicated and expanded
upon the Roman poet's distinctive and frequently remarked
'bookishness' in their own adaptations of his works. Focusing on
the postclassical discourses that Ovid's poetry stimulated, Ovidian
Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book engages with vibrant current
debates about the book as material object as it explores the
Ovidian-inspired mythologies and bibliographical aetiologies that
informed the sixteenth-century creation, reproduction, and
representation of books. Further, author Lindsay Ann Reid's
discussions of Ovidianism provide alternative models for thinking
about the dynamics of reception, adaptation, and imitatio. While
there is a sizeable body of published work on Ovid and Chaucer as
well as on the ubiquitous Ovidianism of the 1590s, there has been
comparatively little scholarship on Ovid's reception between these
two eras. Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book begins to fill
this gap between the ages of Chaucer and Shakespeare by dedicating
attention to the literature of the early Tudor era. In so doing,
this book also contributes to current discussions surrounding
medieval/Renaissance periodization.
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