The courtesan's arts : cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feldman, Martha, editor.

Gordon, Bonnie, 1968- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courtesans--History--Cross-cultural studies.

Courtesans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Courtesans' arts have shaped cultures for centuries, even though their arts have frequently been lost. This interdisciplinary collection explores courtesans cultures from a cross-cultural perspective, past and present, to show how the arts have figured in the courtesan's survival and demise.

Contents:

Making a spectacle of her(self) : the Greek courtesan and the art of the present / James Davidson

Cutting a good figure : the fashions of Venetian courtesans in the illustrated albums of early modern travelers / Margaret F. Rosenthal

"Notes of flesh" and the courtesan's song in seventeenth-century China / Judith T. Zeitlin

The courtesan's voice : Petrarchan lovers, pop philosophy, and oral traditions / Martha Feldman

On hearing the courtesan in a gift of song : the Venetian case of Gaspar Stampa / Dawn De Rycke

On locating the courtesan in Italian lyric : distance and the madrigal texts of Costanzo Festa / Justin Flosi

On music fit for a courtesan : representations of the courtesan and her music in sixteenth-century Italy / Drew Edward Davies

Royalty's courtesans and God's mortal wives : keepers of culture in precolonial India / Doris M. Srinivasan

The courtesan's singing body as cultural capital in seventeenth-century Italy / Bonnie Gordon

Defaming the courtesan : satire and invective in sixteenth-century Italy / Courtney Quaintance

The masculine arts of the ancient Greek courtesan : male fantasy or female self-representation? / Christopher A. Faraone

The city geisha and their role in modern Japan : anomaly or artistes? / Lesley Downer

In the service of the nation : geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow country / Miho Matsugu

Going to the courtesans : transit to the pleasure district of Edo Japan / Timon Screech

Who's afraid of Giulia Napolitana? Pleasure, fear, and imagining the arts of the Renaissance courtesan / Guido Ruggiero

The twentieth-century "disappearance" of the Gisaeng during the rise of Korea's modern sex-and-entertainment industry / Joshua D. Pilzer

Female agency and patrilinieal constraints : situating courtesans in twentieth-century India / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi

Tawa'if, tourism, and tales : the problematics of twenty-first-century musical patronage of North India's courtesans / Amelia Maciszewski.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-380) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772774-3

0-19-517028-8

1-283-05873-1

9786613058737

0-19-977508-7

OCLC:

710992964

Publisher Number:

2027/heb09019 hdl