TY - JOUR
T1 - Ovid and women's pastoral in Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victory
AU - Macdonald, Joyce Green
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper seeks to place Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victory within the context of Ovidian pastoral. Unlike the pastoral models offered by Virgil or Theocritus, which have been suggested as templates for Wroth's play, Ovid's portraits of withdrawal and separation from civil society often focus on women. Ovid's pastorals also emphasize that the topics of courtship and marriage that feature so prominently in Renaissance pastoral can imply sexual anxiety and even danger for women. This paper argues that Wroth's engagement with Ovidian models of female community challenges trends in the recovery and reconstruction of her authorship by feminist scholarship.
AB - This paper seeks to place Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victory within the context of Ovidian pastoral. Unlike the pastoral models offered by Virgil or Theocritus, which have been suggested as templates for Wroth's play, Ovid's portraits of withdrawal and separation from civil society often focus on women. Ovid's pastorals also emphasize that the topics of courtship and marriage that feature so prominently in Renaissance pastoral can imply sexual anxiety and even danger for women. This paper argues that Wroth's engagement with Ovidian models of female community challenges trends in the recovery and reconstruction of her authorship by feminist scholarship.
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U2 - 10.1353/sel.2011.0015
DO - 10.1353/sel.2011.0015
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:79958256806
SN - 0039-3657
VL - 51
SP - 447
EP - 463
JO - SEL - Studies in English Literature
JF - SEL - Studies in English Literature
IS - 2
ER -