Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England [electronic resource] /
Fox, C.author.
Elizabethan English culture is saturated with tales and figures from Ovid s Metamorphoses. While most of these narratives interrogate metamorphosis and transformation, many tales - such as those of Philomela, Hecuba, or Orpheus - also highlight heightened states of emotion, especially in powerless or seemingly powerless characters. When these tales are translated and retold in the new cultural context of Renaissance England, a distinct politics of Ovidian emotion emerges. Through intertextual readings in diverse cultural contexts, Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England reveals the ways these representations helped redefine emotions and the political efficacy of emotional expression in sixteenth-century England.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Elizabeth I's metamorphic body and the politics of Ovidian desire -- Ovidian emotion and allegory in The faerie queene -- Grief and the Ovidian politics of revenge in Titus Andronicus -- Ovidian witches in Reginald Scot's Discoverie of witchcraft.
Elizabethan English culture is saturated with tales and figures from Ovid s Metamorphoses. While most of these narratives interrogate metamorphosis and transformation, many tales - such as those of Philomela, Hecuba, or Orpheus - also highlight heightened states of emotion, especially in powerless or seemingly powerless characters. When these tales are translated and retold in the new cultural context of Renaissance England, a distinct politics of Ovidian emotion emerges. Through intertextual readings in diverse cultural contexts, Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England reveals the ways these representations helped redefine emotions and the political efficacy of emotional expression in sixteenth-century England.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Great Britain-History.
Civilization-History.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Europe-History-1492-.
Ethnology.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Cultural History.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
History of Early Modern Europe.
Cultural Anthropology.