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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 sexualityBroadens readings of 'Iphis and Ianthe' beyond concerns of gender and sexualityBrings medieval and early modern, English and French appropriations of the tale into productive dialogueProvides new readings of John Lyly's Galathea and Issac Benserade's 'Iphis and Ianthe', and of medieval versions of the storyIntervenes in the history of 'trans' phenomena
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: Transversions of 'Iphis and Ianthe', Valerie Traub
1. Metamorphosis as Supplement: Sexuality and History in the Ovide moralisé, Peggy McCracken
2. The Trans* Temporality of Lament: 'Foolish' Hope and Trans* Survival in the Ovide moralisé's 'Iphis and Ianthe', Laurel Billings
3. Gower's Riddles in 'Iphis and Iante', Karma Lochrie
4. Fortune's Touch: Reading Transformation in Christine de Pizan's Mutacion de Fortune, Miranda Griffin
5. Becoming Scattered: The Case of Iphis's Trans*version and the Archipelogic of John Florio's Worlde of Wordes, Marjorie Rubright
6. Alchemy, Humanism, and the Uses of Disknowledge in John Lyly's Galathea, Katherine Eggert
7. The Problem with Love: Untoward Engagement and Humanist Pedagogy in Galatea, Elizabeth Mathie
8. Coastal Squeeze: Environmental Metamorphosis and Lyly's Lincolnshire, Patricia Badir
9. Illegible Bodies: Reading Intersex and Transgender in Early Modern France (The Case of Isaac de Benserade's Iphis et Ianthe), Kathleen Perry Long
10. Lesbianism in Benserade's Iphis et Ianthe (1634): Gallantry and the Making of Heterosexuality in Seventeenth-Century France, Matthieu Dupas
11. Changing the Ways of the World: Sex, Youth, and Modernity in Benserade's Iphis et Ianthe, Susan S. Lanser
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