| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 157 pages) : illustrations, portraits. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Toronto Italian Studies
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Toronto Italian studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
'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. |
| Summary |
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 domesticated wife, children, servants, and animals. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Chronological Term |
1450-1600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Spine Title |
Beasts & beauties |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Schiesari, Juliana. Beasts and beauties. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2010 9780802099228 (DLC) 2010286233 (OCoLC)429726259 |
| ISBN |
9781442697881 (electronic book) |
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1442697881 (electronic book) |
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9780802099228 (print) |
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