Italy’s Eighteenth Century : Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour / Paula Findlen, Catherine M. Sama, Wendy Wassyng Roworth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Findlen, Paula, Editor.

Roworth, Wendy Wassyng, Editor.

Sama, Catherine M., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Italy--History--18th century.

Sex role.

Women--Italy--Intellectual life--18th century.

Women.

No BV PDF.

Italy--Intellectual life--18th century.

Italy.

Local Subjects:

No BV PDF.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 490 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Gender and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy

1. Cicisbei: Italian Morality and European Values in the Eighteenth Century

2. The Temple of Female Glory: Female Self-Affirmation in the Roman Salon of the Grand Tour

3. Giustina Renier Michiel and Conflicting Ideas of Gender in Late Eighteenth-Century Venice

4. Revisiting Arcadia: Women and Academies in Eighteenth-Century Italy

5. "On Canvas and on the Page": Women Shaping Culture in Eighteenth-Century Venice

6. "The Residence of the Arts": Angelica Kauffman's Place in Rome

7. Strange Births and Surprising Kin: The Castrates Tale

8. Sex Without Sex: An Erotic Image of the Castrate Singer

9. Anatomy of a Lesbian: Medicine, Pornography, and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy

10. As Who Dare Gaze the Sum Anna Morandi Manzolini's Wax Anatomies of the Male Reproductive System and Genitalia

11. Between Modesty and Spectacle: Women and Science in Eighteenth-Century Italy

12. "Monsters of Talent": Fame and Reputation of Women Improvisers in Arcadia

13. Gender and Genre in the Religious Art of the Catholic Enlightenment

Notes

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804787543

0804787549

OCLC:

1178768867