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Beasts and beauties animals, gender and domestication in the Italian renaissance / Juliana Schiesari.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2010.; (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010).Description: 1 online resource (xii, 157 pages : illustrations, portraits)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442697881
Other title:
  • Beasts & beauties [Spine title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ630 .B437 2010
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

'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.

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.

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