| Description |
295 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and index. |
| Contents |
Satiric advice : serious or not? / Warren S. Smith -- In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley -- Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund -- The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. Smith -- Marriage and gender in Ovid's erotodidactic poetry / Karla Pollmann -- Advice on sex by the self-defeating satirists : Horace Sermones 1.2, Juvenal Satire 6, and Roman satiric writing / Warren S. Smith -- Chaste Artemis and lusty Aphrodite : the portrait of women and marriage in the Greek and Latin novels / Regine May -- Dissuading from marriage : Jerome and the asceticization of satire / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Change and continuity in pagan and Christian (invective) thought on women and marriage from antiquity to the Middle Ages / Barbara Feichtinger -- Walter as Valerius : classical and Christian in the Dissuasio / Ralph Hanna III and Warren S. Smith -- Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages / P.G. Walsh -- The Wife of Bath and Dorigen debate Jerome / Warren S. Smith. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Political and social views.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Characters -- Women.
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Satire, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Satire, Greek -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- History -- To 1500.
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Satire, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Marriage in literature.
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Women in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Warren S., 1941-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0472114263 (acid-free paper) |
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