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This book analyzes plex, often violent connections between
body and voice in narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Ovid,
Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes the
foundational yet often disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on
early modern poetry, particularly on representations of the self, the
body, and erotic life. Paying close attention to the trope of the female
voice in the Metamorphoses, as well as early modern attempts to
ventriloquize women's voices that are indebted to Ovid's work, she
argues that Ovid's rhetoric of the body profoundly challenges Renais-
sance representations of authorship as well as conceptions about the
difference between male and female experience. This vividly original
book makes a vital contribution to the study of Ovid's presence in
Renaissance literature.
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 35
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
General editor
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Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities, Stanford University
Editorial board
Anne Barton, University of Cambridge
Jonathan Dollimore, University of York
Marjorie Garber, Harvard University
Jonathan Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University
Nancy Vickers, Bryn Mawr College
Since the 1970s there has been a broad and vital reinterpretation of the
nature of literary texts, a move away from formalism to a sense of
literature as an aspect of social, economic, political and cultural history.
While the earliest New Historicist work was criticized for a narrow and
anecdotal view of history, it also served as an important stimulus for
post-structuralist, feminist, Marxist and psychoanalytical work, which
in turn has increasingly informed and redirected it. Recent writing on
the nature of representation, the historical construction of gender and
of the concept of identity itself, on theatre as a political and economi