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Italy's eighteenth century : gender and culture in the age of the grand tour /

This work illuminates the social and cultural landscape of 18th-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Findlen, Paula, Roworth, Wendy Wassyng, 1945-, Sama, Catherine M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cicisbei : Italian morality and European values in the eighteenth century / Roberto Bizzocchi
  • The temple of female glory : female self-affirmation in the Roman salon of the grand tour / Maria Pia Donato
  • Giustina Renier Michiel and conflicting ideas of gender in late eighteenth-century Venice / Susan Dalton
  • Revisiting Arcadia : women and academies in eighteenth-century Italy / Elisabetta Graziosi
  • "On the canvas and on the page" : women shaping culture in eighteenth-century Venice / Catherine M. Sama
  • "The residence of the arts" : Angelica Kauffman's place in Rome / Wendy Wassyng Roworth
  • Strange births and surprising kin : the castrato's tale / Martha Feldman
  • Sex without sex : an erotic image of the castrato singer / Roger Freitas
  • Anatomy of a lesbian : medicine, pornography, and culture in eighteenth-century Italy / Paula Findlen
  • As who dare gaze the sun : Anna Morandi Manzolini's wax anatomies of the male reproductive system and genitalia / Rebecca Messbarge
  • Between modesty and spectacle : women and science in eighteenth-century Italy / Marta Cavazza
  • "Monsters of talent" : fame and reputation of women improvisers in Arcadia / Paola Giuli
  • Gender and genre in the religious art of the Catholic Enlightenment / Christopher M.S. Johns.