Beasts and Beauties : Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance.
Schiesari, Juliana.
Beasts and Beauties : Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (170 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 'Jewels of Women': Ladies, Laps, and Lapdogs in Renaissance Culture -- 2 Portrait of the Poet as a Dog: Petrarch's Epistola metrica III, 5 -- 3 Alberti's Cavallo vivo, or The 'Art' of Domination -- 4 Della Porta's Face of Domestication: Physiognomy, Gender Politics, and Humanism's Others -- 5 Psychoanalytic Intermezzo: Freud's Missed Reading of Leonardo's Alternative Humanism -- 6 Versions of Diana: Gender and Renaissance Mythography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Beasts and Beautiesexamines 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.
9781442697881
Electronic books.
HQ630.S35 2010
306.850945/09031
Beasts and Beauties : Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (170 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 'Jewels of Women': Ladies, Laps, and Lapdogs in Renaissance Culture -- 2 Portrait of the Poet as a Dog: Petrarch's Epistola metrica III, 5 -- 3 Alberti's Cavallo vivo, or The 'Art' of Domination -- 4 Della Porta's Face of Domestication: Physiognomy, Gender Politics, and Humanism's Others -- 5 Psychoanalytic Intermezzo: Freud's Missed Reading of Leonardo's Alternative Humanism -- 6 Versions of Diana: Gender and Renaissance Mythography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Beasts and Beautiesexamines 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.
9781442697881
Electronic books.
HQ630.S35 2010
306.850945/09031