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Satiric advice on women and marriage [electronic resource] : from Plautus to Chaucer / Warren S. Smith, editor.

Contributor(s): Smith, Warren S, 1941- | ebrary, Inc.

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BookPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005Description: 295 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Political and social views | Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Characters -- Women | Satire, Latin -- History and criticism | Satire, Greek -- History and criticism | Women and literature -- History -- To 1500 | Satire, Medieval -- History and criticism | Marriage in literature | Women in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 877.009/3543 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Contents:

Satiric advice : serious or not? / Warren S. Smith -- In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley -- Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund -- The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. Smith -- Marriage and gender in Ovid's erotodidactic poetry / Karla Pollmann -- Advice on sex by the self-defeating satirists : Horace Sermones 1.2, Juvenal Satire 6, and Roman satiric writing / Warren S. Smith -- Chaste Artemis and lusty Aphrodite : the portrait of women and marriage in the Greek and Latin novels / Regine May -- Dissuading from marriage : Jerome and the asceticization of satire / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Change and continuity in pagan and Christian (invective) thought on women and marriage from antiquity to the Middle Ages / Barbara Feichtinger -- Walter as Valerius : classical and Christian in the Dissuasio / Ralph Hanna III and Warren S. Smith -- Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages / P.G. Walsh -- The Wife of Bath and Dorigen debate Jerome / Warren S. Smith.

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