Satiric advice on women and marriage
Subtitle: from Plautus to Chaucer
By: Warren S. Smith, editor.
Contributors: Smith, Warren S., 1941-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: 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 literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Satiric advice : serious or not? / Warren S. Smith; title: In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley; title: Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund; title: The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. Smith; title: Marriage and gender in Ovid's erotodidactic poetry / Karla Pollmann; title: Advice on sex by the self-defeating satirists : Horace Sermones 1.2, Juvenal Satire 6, and Roman satiric writing / Warren S. Smith; title: Chaste Artemis and lusty Aphrodite : the portrait of women and marriage in the Greek and Latin novels / Regine May; title: Dissuading from marriage : Jerome and the asceticization of satire / Elizabeth A. Clark; title: Change and continuity in pagan and Christian (invective) thought on women and marriage from antiquity to the Middle Ages / Barbara Feichtinger; title: Walter as Valerius : classical and Christian in the Dissuasio / Ralph Hanna III and Warren S. Smith; title: Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages / P.G. Walsh; title: The Wife of Bath and Dorigen debate Jerome / Warren S. Smith.