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Italy's eighteenth century : gender and culture in the age of the grand tour
Title
Italy's eighteenth century : gender and culture in the age of the grand tour / edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, and Catherine M. Sama.
ISBN
9780804759045 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804759049 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xii, 490 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 11 were translated by Matthew Sneider."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 06, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-455) and index.
Contents
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.
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