Latin Love Elegists

Hunter H. Gardner (Ph.D. 2005, University of North Carolina) is a Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of numerous articles on Latin elegy, has co-edited two essay collections, and written two monographs, including Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy (Oxford 2013).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbstractKeywordsIntroduction1 Antecedents, Origins, Innovations2 Playing the Gender Card: Augustan Love Elegy3 (De)constructing the puella4 Elegiac vulnerabilities: scripting desire in Augustan Rome5 Receptions and New DirectionsBibliographyIndex

"This volume admirably addresses these goals [of the series] (...) That is largely a consequence of Gardner’s laudably uncompromising approach to synthesizing the vast range of critical literature on Latin elegy of the last fifty years or so. (...) Gardner offers a rich and amply documented resource on Latin love elegy, especially in the fields of gender studies and sexuality. (...) Gardner helps the reader to follow the thematic threads running through the three major surviving elegists’ poetry. (...) Inevitably, surveys such as this represent a snapshot of the state of criticism at a moment in time, which will pass, so readers would be advised to consult a copy soon.Peter E. Knox in BMCR 2024.12.29