Early Modern Latin Love Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54803-9
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 196 g

Reihe: Brill

This volume sheds new light on the extraordinary richness and variety of love poetry written in Latin from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It shows how Latin love poets reworked classical Roman and Greek models, and engaged in dialogue with mediaeval and contemporary vernacular traditions of poetry. They used the poetic language of love in Latin to reflect and comment on wider social, ethical and literary issues, and reconfigured its codes of representation in response to changing conceptions of love in the philosophical and religious spheres. Their poetry often aligned itself with dominant discourses of power and gender, but it could also be subtly subversive or even openly transgressive.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Mittel- & Neulateinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abstract

Keywords

1 Love Elegy

2 Neo-Catullanism

3 Excursus: Art and Life

4 Petrarchism

5 Mediaeval Presences

6 Virgilian Pastoral and Horatian Lyric

7 Greek Models

8 Women’s Writing and Female Voices

9 Philosophical and Spiritual Currents

10 Conjugal Love and Family

11 Obscenity

12 Homosexuality

13 Love’s Transformations; Metamorphosis and Mannerism

14 Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul White is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Leeds. He has published monographs and numerous articles on Latin poetry and its reception, and on early modern literary and intellectual culture.