Learned Girls and Male Persuasion - Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy (Hardcover)

"James provides a highly original reading of the elegiac genre. Her use of the "docta puella "as the focalizing point of her reading provides new insight into its fundamental nature. . . . The book would serve as an excellent introduction to the genre for undergraduates."--Paul Allen Miller, author of "Latin Erotic Elegy: An Anthology and Reader

""Learned Girls and Male Persuasion should be required reading for anyone teaching or studying the elegists. . . . [Sharon James] views the genre in the light of social reality, showing us what is ubiquitous and obvious in the poems if we take off the rose-colored glasses of romantic idealism: the facts of violence, rape, and abortion, and, above all, the fundamental tension between the erotic demands of the lover and the economic needs of the puella. Elegy will never be the same again."--Julia Gaisser, author of "Catullus and his Renaissance Readers

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