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.