{"id":726,"date":"2026-08-19T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/?page_id=726"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:38:00","slug":"barren-of-beauty-forthcoming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/publications\/barren-of-beauty-forthcoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Barren of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Barren of Beauty: Impoverished and Marginalized Aesthetics in Latin Literature<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Edited by Lorenza Bennardo and Rebecca Moorman<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Forthcoming with University of Toronto Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Introduction: Latin\u2019s Poverty and Impoverished Aesthetics (Lorenza Bennardo and Rebecca Moorman)<\/p>\n<p><strong>I. Disrupting the Literary Canon<\/strong><br \/>\n1. <em>Sulpiciae Elegidia<\/em>: Female-authored Epigram in Ancient Rome (Alison Keith)<br \/>\n2. Scribbling, Schooling, Losing Control: A Note on Virgil\u2019s Troilus and Metapoetry (Andrew McClellan)<br \/>\n3. Sublime Delusions: Bathos and Sublimity in Statius\u2019 <em>Thebaid<\/em> (T.J. Bolt)<br \/>\n4. The aesthetic foolsgoldstandard in Petronius (Erik Gunderson)<\/p>\n<p><strong>II. Feeling Impoverishment<\/strong><br \/>\n5. <em>Incustoditis et apertis, Lesbia<\/em>: Martial\u2019s Lesbia, Cuckolding Catullus, and Impoverishing the Intertext (David Sutton)<br \/>\n6. Rome\u2019s Tired Subjects: Exhaustion in the <em>Aeneid<\/em> (James Uden)<br \/>\n7. An Unhomely Homecoming: The Aesthetics of the Uncanny in Seneca\u2019s <em>Agamemnon<\/em> (Elaine Sanderson)<\/p>\n<p><strong>III. The Socioeconomics of Aesthetic Impoverishment<\/strong><br \/>\n8. <em>gula est<\/em>: Appropriating the aesthetics of illness in Martial\u2019s <em>Epigrams<\/em> (Kate Stevens)<br \/>\n9. Sympathy for a Cannibal: Renegotiating Roman Values with the Aesthetics of Disgust in Pseudo-Quintilian\u2019s <em>Declamatio maior<\/em> 12 (Nicola H\u00f6mke)<br \/>\n10. The Way and its poor: bareness of life from Seneca to Jerome (Alex Dressler)<\/p>\n<p><strong> IV. Impoverishment and the Senses<\/strong><br \/>\n11. <em>Venuste Incohata<\/em>: Catullus and the Charm of Incompletion (Emilia Barbiero)<br \/>\n12. Ovid\u2019s Disembodied Embodiment of Hunger in <em>Metamorphoses<\/em> 8 (Mariapia Pietropaolo)<br \/>\n13. Thomas Couture\u2019s <em>The Romans of the Decadence<\/em> and the Unmooring of Rome\u2019s Decline (Basil Dufallo)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barren of Beauty: Impoverished and Marginalized Aesthetics in Latin Literature Edited by Lorenza Bennardo and Rebecca Moorman Forthcoming with University of Toronto Press Table of Contents Introduction: Latin\u2019s Poverty and Impoverished Aesthetics (Lorenza Bennardo and Rebecca Moorman) I. Disrupting the Literary Canon 1. Sulpiciae Elegidia: Female-authored Epigram in Ancient Rome (Alison Keith) 2. Scribbling, Schooling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23024,"featured_media":0,"parent":41,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726\/revisions\/729"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}