Ovidian Transversions Iphis And Ianthe 13001650 Valerie Traub Patricia Badir Peggy Mccracken by Valerie Traub; Patricia Badir; Peggy Mccracken 9781474448925, 1474448925 instant download after payment.

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.

• 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