The Brief Ovidian Career of Isabella Whitney: From Heroidean to Tristian Complaint

Lindsay Ann Reid

doi:http://hdl.handle.net/10379/16121

The Brief Ovidian Career of Isabella Whitney: From Heroidean to Tristian Complaint

Lindsay Ann Reid

English

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Calling attention to the Ovidian contours of Isabella Whitneys cursus litterarum, this essay reconsiders the literary heritage of the personae she adopts in The Copy of a Letter (c. 1566) and A Sweet Nosgay (1573). Existing analyses of Whitneys Ovidianism have tended to emphasize her debts to the female-voiced epistles of the Heroides while simultaneously overlooking profound intertextual connections between A Sweet Nosgay and Ovids exilic writings. In contrast, this essay argues that the outlines of a self-consciously classical career trajectory (its stages demarcated by Whitneys subtle aesthetic shift from Heroidean amatory complaint to Tristian exile complaint) can be detected when The Copy of a Letter and A Sweet Nosgay are read contiguously.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	Early Modern Womens Complaint: Gender, Form and Politics
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN (Electronic)	9.78303E+12
ISBN (Print)	9.78303E+12
DOIs	https://doi.org/http://hdl.handle.net/10379/16121
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2020

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