{"product_id":"ovids-art-and-the-wife-of-bath","title":"Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOvid's Art and the Wife of Bath\u003c\/i\u003e examines how Ovid's \u003ci\u003eArs amatoria\u003c\/i\u003e shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The \u003ci\u003eArs amatoria\u003c\/i\u003e circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the medieval West are haunted by the imperial Roman constructions of desire that emerge from Ovid's text. The \u003ci\u003eArs amatoria\u003c\/i\u003e ironically proposes the erotic potential of violence, and this aspect of the \u003ci\u003eArs\u003c\/i\u003e proved to be enormously influential. Ovid's discourse on erotic violence provides a script for Heloise's epistolary expression of desire for Abelard. The \u003ci\u003eRoman de la Rose\u003c\/i\u003e extends the directives of the \u003ci\u003eArs\u003c\/i\u003e with a rhetorical flourish and poetic excess that tests the limits of Ovidian irony. While Christine de Pizan critiqued the representations of erotic violence in the \u003ci\u003eRose\u003c\/i\u003e, Chaucer appropriates the Ovidian discourse from the \u003ci\u003eRoman de la Rose\u003c\/i\u003e to construct the Wife of Bath—a female figure that today's readers find uncannily familiar.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Well written and provocative, this book will interest scholars of premodern literature, especially those who work on Medieval English and French, as well as classical, texts. Marilynn Desmond draws on feminist and queer theory, which places \u003ci\u003eOvid's Art and the Wife of Bath\u003c\/i\u003e at the cutting edge of debates in gender and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239685575000,"sku":"9780801443794","price":79.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780801443794.jpg?v=1778904956","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ovids-art-and-the-wife-of-bath","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}