The University of British Columbia
UBC - A Place of Mind
The University of British Columbia Vancouver campus
Department of English Language and Literatures
  • Courses
    • First-Year English Courses
    • Undergraduate Courses
    • Graduate Courses
    • Graduate Courses
    • Courses 2019 – Curriculum Changes
    • Course Descriptions Archive
  • First-Year English
    • First-Year English Courses
    • For Students in the Faculty of Arts
    • For Students in other Faculties and Graduate, Unclassified or Visiting Students
    • For Exchange Students
    • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    • Advising
  • Undergraduate
    • Undergraduate Courses
    • View Career Possibilities
    • Major in English
    • Honours English
    • Minor in English
    • Advising
  • Graduate
    • Graduate Courses
    • General Information
    • M.A. Degree Requirements (Language or Literature)
    • Ph.D. Degree Requirements
    • Indigenous Critical and Creative Studies (ICCS)
    • Admission Information
    • PhD Co-op Program
    • Graduate Students
    • Contacts
  • People
    • Faculty
    • Graduate Faculty
    • Visiting Faculty
    • Emeriti Faculty
    • Administrative Office
    • Graduate Students
    • Alumni
  • Research
    • Department Bookshelf
    • Research Networks
  • Resources
    • Internal [AIR SITE]
    • For Students
    • For Teaching Assistants
    • Careers for English Graduates
    • Academic Careers
    • Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications
    • Visiting Scholars Application Information
    • Room Availability Calendars
  • News & Events
    • News
    • Events Calendar
    • Newsletters
  • About
    • About the Department
    • English at UBC’s Vancouver Campus
    • Contact Us
» Home » 2019 » November » 05 » Ovidian Transversions, ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650

Ovidian Transversions, ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650

Valerie Traub, Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken, Editors

Edinburgh University Press

2019

Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid’s tale of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid’s story of a girl’s miraculous transformation into a boy sparked a diversity of responses in English and French from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. In addition to analysing various translations and commentaries, the volume clusters essays around treatments of John Lyly’s Galatea (c. 1585) and Issac de Benserade’s Iphis et Iante (1637). As a whole, the volume addresses gender and transgender, sexuality and gallantry, anatomy and alchemy, fable and history, youth and pedagogy, language and climate change.

 

Purchase this Book

About the Editors

Patricia Badir

Patricia Badir is Professor and Department Head in the Department of English Language and Literatures. She is the author of The Maudlin Impression: English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550-1700 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009) and her most recent set of articles studies the archival remains of early twentieth-century productions of medieval and renaissance drama. She is currently working on a series of articles that explores what it means to study the early modern past “from here” as well as book on early twentieth-century director, Roy Mitchell and the matter of the theatrical archive.

Learn more about this editor»

Valerie Traub and Peggy McCracken

 

Department Bookshelf   |  Explore Our Bookshelf »

Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948
Eva-Marie Kröller

Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd
Judith Paltin

Oroonoko
Edited by Tiffany Potter

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood
Edited by Tiffany Potter

Speechsong – The Gould/Schoenberg Dialogues
Richard Cavell

Historians on John Gower, edited by Stephen Rigby with Sian Echard

Historians on John Gower
Edited by Stephen Rigby with Siân Echard

Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English
Stefan Dollinger

The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction
Zachary Lesser (Editor) - Daniel Allington - David A. Brewer - Stephen Colclough and Siân Echard

Pluricentricity Debate

The Pluricentricity Debate
Stefan Dollinger

Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife
Gregory Mackie


Department of English Language and Literatures
Vancouver Campus
397 - 1873 East Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1
Tel 604 822 9824
Find us on
    
Back to top
The University of British Columbia
  • Emergency Procedures |
  • Terms of Use |
  • Copyright |
  • Accessibility