Masculinities and Representation : The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisenbichler, Konrad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity--Italy--History.

Masculinity.

Masculinity--Great Britain--History.

Masculinity in art--History.

Masculinity in art.

Masculinity in literature--History.

Masculinity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2024.

Summary:

Masculinities and Representationreveals how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Religion, Heavenly Art, Earthly Bodies

1 Bathing and Bonding: Sensual Male Imagery in Italian Paintings of Baptism

2 Blasphemous or Beautiful? Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist: Holy Masculinity and Its Ambiguities ca. 1500

3 Sharing a Bed with Dominic: Celibacy and Masculinity in the Cult of Saint Vincent Ferrer

4 The Body of Christ: Suffering and Desire in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola's De Venere et Cupidine Expellendis

Part Two: Women and Men: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Desire

5 A Dio Zerbini a Dio, a Dio Narcisi: Satirizing Effeminacy in Margherita Costa's Florentine Works (1638-1641)

6 Masculine-Feminine Dichotomy in the Sixteenth Century: Mythological Donna con Donna Images from Fontainebleau and Northern Italy

Part Three: Knowledge and Emotions: Forbidden and Required

7 Wounded Histories on the Stages of Old and New Worlds: Vivaldi's Motezuma and the Cries of Conquest

8 Male Courtly Feeling and the Historical Performativity of Shyness in A Midsummer Night's Dream

9 Latin Epigrams and Early Modern Sexual Knowledge: Or, How Jonson Read His Martial

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4875-5698-5

1-4875-5699-3

OCLC:

1430768351