Ovidian Transversions: ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650

Valerie Traub; Patricia Badir; Peggy McCracken

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Ovidian Transversions

‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650

Valerie Traub , Patricia Badir and Peggy McCracken

In the series Conversions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474448925

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About this book

Focuses on transversions of Ovid’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in both English and French literature

Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid’s tale of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid’s story of a girl’s miraculous transformation into a boy sparked a diversity of responses in English and French from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. In addition to analysing various translations and commentaries, the volume clusters essays around treatments of John Lyly’s Galatea (c. 1585) and Issac de Benserade’s Iphis et Iante (1637). As a whole, the volume addresses gender and transgender, sexuality and gallantry, anatomy and alchemy, fable and history, youth and pedagogy, language and climate change.

Key Features:

The only scholarly monograph to focus on Ovid’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’
Intervenes in the history of Ovidian reception and literary history, particularly in terms of gender and sexuality
Broadens readings of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ beyond concerns of gender and sexuality
Brings medieval and early modern, English and French appropriations of the tale into productive dialogue
Provides new readings of John Lyly’s Galathea and Issac Benserade’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, and of medieval versions of the story
Intervenes in the history of ‘trans’ phenomena

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction: Transversions of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ Valerie Traub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Metamorphosis as Supplement: Sexuality and History in the Ovide moralisé Peggy McCracken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
2. The Trans* Temporality of Lament: ‘Foolish’ Hope and Trans* Survival in the Ovide moralisé’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ Laurel Billings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
3. Gower’s Riddles in ‘Iphis and Iante’ Karma Lochrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
4. Fortune’s Touch: Reading Transformation in Christine de Pizan’s Mutacion de Fortune Miranda Griffin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
5. Becoming Scattered: The Case of Iphis’s Trans*version and the Archipelogic of John Florio’s Worlde of Wordes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
6. Alchemy, Humanism and the Uses of Disknowledge in John Lyly’s Galatea Katherine Eggert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
7. The Problem with Love: Untoward Engagement and Humanist Pedagogy in Galatea Elizabeth Mathie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
8. Coastal Squeeze: Environmental Metamorphosis and Lyly’s Lincolnshire Patricia Badir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
9. Illegible Bodies: Reading Intersex and Transgender in Early Modern France (the Case of Isaac de Benserade’s Iphis et Ianthe) Kathleen Perry Long Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
10. Lesbianism in Benserade’s Iphis et Ianthe (1634): Gallantry and the Making of Heterosexuality in Seventeenth-Century France Matthieu Dupas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
11. Changing the Ways of the World: Sex, Youth and Modernity in Benserade’s Iphis et Iante Susan S. Lanser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Appendices: Translations and Images of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Other: 29 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474448925