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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Reproducing Rome
    sub title: motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius
  name:
    name part: McAuley, Mairéad
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 449 pages)
  abstract: Through a series of close readings of works by Virgil, Ovid, Seneca and Statius, the volume scrutinizes the gender dynamics that permeate these ancient authors' language, imagery and narrative structures. Analysing these texts 'through and for the maternal', McAuley considers to what degree their representations of motherhood reflect, construct, or subvert Roman ideals of, and anxieties about, family, gender roles and reproduction.
  table of contents: In the conservative and competitive society of ancient Rome, where the law of the father (patria potestas) was supposedly absolute, motherhood took on complex aesthetic, moral, and political meanings in elite literary discourse. Reproducing Rome is a study of the representation of maternity in the Roman literature of the first century CE, a period of intense social upheaval and reorganization as Rome was transformed from a Republic to a form of hereditary monarchy under the emperor Augustus. Through a series of close readings of works by Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius, the volume scrutinizes the gender dynamics that permeate these ancient authors' language, imagery, and narrative structures. Analysing these texts 'through and for the maternal', McAuley considers to what degree their representations of motherhood reflect, construct, or subvert Roman ideals of, and anxieties about, family, gender roles, and reproduction. The volume also explores the extent to which these representations distort or displace concerns about fatherhood or other relations of power in Augustan and post-Augustan Rome. Keeping the ancient literary and historical context in view, the volume conducts a dialogue between these ancient male authors and modern feminist theorists-from Klein to Irigaray, Kristeva to Cavarero-to consider the relationship between motherhood as symbol and how a maternal subjectivity is suggested, developed, or suppressed by the authors. Readers are encouraged to consider the problems and possibilities of reading the maternal in these ancient texts, and to explore the unique site the maternal occupies in pre-modern discourses underpinning Western culture.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Mairéad McAuley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Virgil
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ovid
      name part: 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
      name part: approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ovid
      name part: 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
      name part: approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Virgil
  subject:
    topic: Motherhood in literature
  subject:
    topic: Latin literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Maternité dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Littérature latine
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Latin literature
  subject:
    topic: Motherhood in literature
  classification: PA6030.W7 M33 2016
  classification: 870.9355
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory
  identifier: 9780191808968
  identifier: 0191808962
  identifier: 9780199659364
  identifier: 0199659362
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AZU
    record creation date: 150806
    record change date: 20260319161728.2
    record identifier: in00005712768
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng