pt. 1 -- Concepts, structures, and characters in Roman love elegy -- Introduction: approaching elegy -- Men, women, poetry, and money: the material bases and social backgrounds of elegy -- pt. 2 -- The material girls and the arguments of elegy; or, The docta puella reads elegy -- Against the greedy girl; or, The docta puella does not live by elegy alone -- Characters, complaints, and the stations of the lover; or, Adventures and laments in elegy -- pt. 3 -- Problems of gender and genre, text and audience, in Roman love elegy -- Necessary female beauty and generic male resentment: reading elegy through Ovid -- Poetry, politics, sex, status: how the docta puella serves elegy

1. Elegiac poetry
2. Latin -- History and criticism
3. Love poetry
4. Latin -- History and criticism
5. Man-woman relationships in literature
6. Women -- Books and reading -- Rome
7. Women and literature -- Rome
8. Books and reading -- Rome
9. Sex role in literature
10. Persuasion (Rhetoric)
11. Women in literature
12. Electronic books.