Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

by Jane Stevenson

Book Overview

Women Latin Poets addresses women's relationship to culture between the first century B.C. and the eighteenth century A.D. by studying women's poetry in Latin. Based entirely on original archival research in twelve countries, Stevenson recovers an aspect of history often deemed not to exist: women who achieved public recognition in their own time, sometimes to a startling extent. Presenting, often for the first time, the work of more than three hundred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198185022
• ISBN13: 9780198185024
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"