In a series of case studies of prominent female authors - from Ali Smith and Marina Warner to Alice Oswald and Yoko Tawada - this volume examines the figure of Ovid who emerges from the hands of contemporary women writers and explores the intersections between his imaginative universe and the political and aesthetic agenda of third-wave feminism.

• Introduction


• 1: Ali Smith


• 2: Marina Warner


• 3: Yoko Tawada


• 4: Alice Oswald


• 5: Mary Zimmerman


• 6: Saviana Stãnescu


• 7: Jo Shapcott


• 8: Marie Darrieussecq


• 9: Josephine Balmer and Averill Curdy


• 10: Michèle Roberts and Clare Pollard


• 11: Jane Alison


• Conclusion


• Endmatter


• Bibliography


• Index

Fiona Cox is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter, and has previously worked at the National University of Ireland, Cork and Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III. She is the author of Aeneas Takes the Metro: The Presence of Virgil in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Routledge, 1999) and Sibylline Sisters: Virgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing (OUP, 2011). She has also published widely in the area of nineteenth-century French literature, particularly on Victor Hugo, and is currently editing a volume entitled Homer's Daughters: Homer's Presence in Women's Writing, 1914-2014 with Elena Theodorakopoulos (forthcoming with OUP).