Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Contributors xiii
6. Introduction: Transversions of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ 1
7. 1. Metamorphosis as Supplement: Sexuality and History in the Ovide moralisé 43
8. 2. The Trans* Temporality of Lament: ‘Foolish’ Hope and Trans* Survival in the Ovide moralisé’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ 60
9. 3. Gower’s Riddles in ‘Iphis and Iante’ 80
10. 4. Fortune’s Touch: Reading Transformation in Christine de Pizan’s Mutacion de Fortune 99
11. 5. Becoming Scattered: The Case of Iphis’s Trans*version and the Archipelogic of John Florio’s Worlde of Wordes 118
12. 6. Alchemy, Humanism and the Uses of Disknowledge in John Lyly’s Galatea 150
13. 7. The Problem with Love: Untoward Engagement and Humanist Pedagogy in Galatea 172
14. 8. Coastal Squeeze: Environmental Metamorphosis and Lyly’s Lincolnshire 191
15. 9. Illegible Bodies: Reading Intersex and Transgender in Early Modern France (the Case of Isaac de Benserade’s Iphis et Ianthe) 213
16. 10. Lesbianism in Benserade’s Iphis et Ianthe (1634): Gallantry and the Making of Heterosexuality in Seventeenth-Century France 241
17. 11. Changing the Ways of the World: Sex, Youth and Modernity in Benserade’s Iphis et Iante 261
18. Appendices: Translations and Images of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ 279
19. Index 321