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Beasts and beauties : animals, gender and domestication in the Italian renaissance /

Beasts and Beauties examines the relationship between domesticity and power by focusing on the contemporaneous development of the invention of the 'pet' and the delineation of the home as a uniquely private enclosure, where the pater familias ruled over his own secluded world of domesticat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schiesari, Juliana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010.
Colección:Toronto Italian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'Jewels of women' : ladies, laps, and lapdogs in Renaissance culture
  • Portrait of the poet as a dog : Petrarch's Epistola metrica III, 5
  • Alberti's Cavallo vivo, or The 'art' of domination
  • Della Porta's face of domestication : physiognomy, gender politics, and humanism's others
  • Psychoanalytic intermezzo : Freud's missed reading of Leonardo's alternative humanism
  • Versions of Diana : gender and Renaissance mythography.