Focuses on transversions of Ovid's 'Iphis and Ianthe' in both English and French literature
Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid's tale of 'Iphis and Ianthe' in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid's story of a girl's miraculous transformation into a boy sparked a diversity of responses in English and French from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. In addition to analysing various translations and commentaries, the volume clusters essays around treatments of John Lyly's Galatea (c. 1585) and Issac de Benserade's Iphis et Iante (1637). As a whole, the volume addresses gender and transgender, sexuality and gallantry, anatomy and alchemy, fable and history, youth and pedagogy, language and climate change.
Key Features:
The only scholarly monograph to focus on Ovid's 'Iphis and Ianthe'Intervenes in the history of Ovidian reception and literary history, particularly in terms of gender and sexualityBroadens readings of 'Iphis and Ianthe' beyond concerns of gender and sexualityBrings medieval and early modern, English and French appropriations of the tale into productive dialogueProvides new readings of John Lyly's Galathea and Issac Benserade's 'Iphis and Ianthe', and of medieval versions of the storyIntervenes in the history of 'trans' phenomena
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it is a reflection of the value of this project, and the inherent interest of Ovid's comparatively neglected story, that the reader is left asking further questions about the texts, and identifying additional avenues that remain to be explored. And the very helpful appendixes, which include several of the shorter texts analyzed by the contributors as well as an intriguing selection of illustrations of the myth, further highlight the richness of this material and actively invite the reader to make his or her own new discoveries. -- Sarah Annes Brown, Anglia Ruskin University * Renaissance Quarterly * The essays in the collection are of uniformly high quality, and they complement each other well. ... All in all, it is hard to imagine a better book on the subject. -- Ian Frederick Moulton, Arizona State University * Journal of the History of Sexuality * A spectacular achievement. Harnessing the capacity of Ovid's Iphis story to unsettle our categories of being and knowing, this book represents the very best in collaborative scholarship. It makes a truly transformational contribution to research on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Ovidian reception, and the history and politics of embodiment, sexuality and gender. * Robert Mills, University College London * Ovidian Transversions claims, in the Introduction, to 'advance our understanding of these texts' investments in the body, intersexuality, gender, transgender, youth and homoeroticism'. These essays 'make clear that the tale should be considered a key text for feminist criticism, queer studies and the history of sexuality'. This claim is more than supported by this valuable volume. -- Sarah Carter, Nottingham Trent University * Translation and Literature *
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29 black and white illustrations
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-1-4744-4891-8 (9781474448918)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Valerie Traub is the Adrienne Rich Distinguished University Professor and Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Working across the disciplines of literature and history, she is a specialist in the study of gender and sexuality in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. She is the author of three monographs: Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (2015), The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (2002), and Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (1992, 2014). Her most recent collection is The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment (2016). Patricia Badir is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of The Maudlin Impression: English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550-1700 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009) and her most recent set of articles studies the archival remains of early twentieth-century productions of medieval and renaissance drama. She is currently working on a series of articles that explores what it means to study the early modern past "from here" as well as book on early twentieth-century director, Roy Mitchell and the matter of the theatrical archive. Peggy McCracken is the Mary Fair Croushore Collegiate Professor of the Humanities and Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author or co-author of six books, including most recently In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France (2017), and translator of Gui de Cambrai's Barlaam and Josaphat: A Christian Tale of the Buddha (2014).
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Adrienne Rich Distinguished University Professor and Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's StudiesUniversity of Michigan
Professor of EnglishUniversity of British Columbia
Mary Fair Croushore Collegiate Professor of the Humanities and Professor of French, Comparative Literature and Women's StudiesUniversity of Michigan
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Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: Transversions of 'Iphis and Ianthe', Valerie Traub
1. Metamorphosis as Supplement: Sexuality and History in the Ovide moralise, Peggy McCracken
2. The Trans* Temporality of Lament: 'Foolish' Hope and Trans* Survival in the Ovide moralise's 'Iphis and Ianthe', Laurel Billings
3. Gower's Riddles in 'Iphis and Iante', Karma Lochrie
4. Fortune's Touch: Reading Transformation in Christine de Pizan's Mutacion de Fortune, Miranda Griffin
5. Becoming Scattered: The Case of Iphis's Trans*version and the Archipelogic of John Florio's Worlde of Wordes, Marjorie Rubright
6. Alchemy, Humanism, and the Uses of Disknowledge in John Lyly's Galathea, Katherine Eggert
7. The Problem with Love: Untoward Engagement and Humanist Pedagogy in Galatea, Elizabeth Mathie
8. Coastal Squeeze: Environmental Metamorphosis and Lyly's Lincolnshire, Patricia Badir
9. Illegible Bodies: Reading Intersex and Transgender in Early Modern France (The Case of Isaac de Benserade's Iphis et Ianthe), Kathleen Perry Long
10. Lesbianism in Benserade's Iphis et Ianthe (1634): Gallantry and the Making of Heterosexuality in Seventeenth-Century France, Matthieu Dupas
11. Changing the Ways of the World: Sex, Youth, and Modernity in Benserade's Iphis et Ianthe, Susan S. Lanser
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