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The Ovidian vogue : literary fashion and imitative practice in late Elizabethan England

Title
The Ovidian vogue : literary fashion and imitative practice in late Elizabethan England / Daniel D. Moss.
Author
Moss, Daniel David, 1979-
Publication
  • Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
  • ©2014

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Description
x, 256 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"The Roman poet Ovid was one of the most-imitated classical writers of the Elizabethan age and a touchstone for generations of English writers. In The Ovidian Vogue, Daniel Moss argues that poets appropriated Ovid not just to connect with the ancient past but also to communicate and compete within late Elizabethan literary culture"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "Note how she quotes the leaves" -- Impotence and stillbirth: Nashe, Shakespeare, and the Ovidian debut -- Shadow and corpus: the shifting figure of Ovid in Chapman's early poetry -- Ovid in the godless poem: allusive rebellion in Edmund Spenser's Legend of justice -- The post-Metamorphic landscape in Drayton's Endimion and Phoebe and Englands heroicall epistles -- The brief Ovidian career of John Donne -- Conclusion: "It sticks strangely, whatever it is."
Call Number
JFE 15-7649
ISBN
  • 9781442648685
  • 1442648686
OCLC
875729172
Author
Moss, Daniel David, 1979- author.
Title
The Ovidian vogue : literary fashion and imitative practice in late Elizabethan England / Daniel D. Moss.
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1500 - 1700
Research Call Number
JFE 15-7649
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