Women Latin poets
Subtitle: language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth century
By: Jane Stevenson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 659
ISBN-13: 9780198185024
Subjects: Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Latin poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women -- Europe -- Intellectual life.; Feminist and literature -- Europe.; Women and literature -- Europe.; Authority in literature.; Sex role in literature.
Description: "Presenting the work of more than three hundred women Latin poets, many for the first time, this study substantially revises received opinion on women's participation in, and relation to, elite culture. All verse quoted in the text is translated, and there is a comprehensive finding guide that lists manuscripts, editions, and translations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [596]-616) and index.