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Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within this charged atmosphere. To date, criticism has focused on the reception of Ovid's enormously influential work in this period, but little attention has been paid to Ovid's lives and their uses. Through close analysis of a diverse corpus, which includes prefatory Lives, novels, plays, biographical dictionaries, poetry, and memoirs, this study investigates how the figure of Ovid was used to debate literary taste and modernity and to reflect on translation practice. It shows how the narrative of Ovid's life was deployed to explore the politics and poetics of exile writing; and to question the relationship between fiction and history. In so doing, this book identifies two paradoxes: although an ancient poet, Ovid became key to the formulation of aspects of self-consciously 'modern' cultural movements; and while Ovid's work might have adorned the royal palaces of Versailles, the poetry he wrote after being exiled by the Emperor Augustus made him a figure through which to question the relationship between authority and narrative. The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture not only nuances understanding of both Ovid and life-writing in this period, but also offers a fresh perspective on classical reception: its paradoxes, uses, and quarrels.
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Helena Taylor, University of Exeter
Helena Taylor is a Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Exeter. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford, where she then held a Queen's College Laming Junior Fellowship. Her research focuses on seventeenth-century French culture, with an interest in women's writing, early modern quarrels, and classical reception.
Review
"a richly detailed and original study." -- Emma Herdman, French Studies
"Taylor uses the focus on lives as a way back into literary questions, giving fresh perspectives on familiar problems ... this rich and rewarding book deserves, and will no doubt find, a much wider readership beyond the discipline of French studies." -- Paul White, Modern Philology
"The various research perspectives that the author of this book brings together in her analysis of early modern source material make it of interest to a wide variety of scholars within cultural history: it is an important contribution to Ovidian reception as well as to early-modern French literature and to book history." --John Tholen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0198796773
- ISBN 13 9780198796770
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages208
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