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Roman charity : queer lactations in early modern visual culture / Jutta Gisela Sperling.
Author
Sperling, Jutta Gisela
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016]
Description
430 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Marquand Library Use Only
N8217.B76 S64 2016
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Subject(s)
Breastfeeding in art
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Art, Modern
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17th century
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Themes, motives
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Art, Renaissance
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Themes, motives
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Sex
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Social aspects
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Sex (Psychology)
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Sex and history
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Gay people
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Fiction
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Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; v. 87.
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Image ; v. 87
Summary note
The ancient stories of Pero, who breastfed her father, and of the unnamend Roman daughter, who breastfed her mother, were of tremendous interest to artists and their audiences from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.0?The Roman Charity± investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The book explores the popularity of a topic that renders modern viewers uneasy, but appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the venerable concept of ?charity±, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It tries to understand why and how early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene ?good to think with±, and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. I Images
ch. 1 Breastfeeding Pero: Sign of Desire, Transgression, and Dionysian Excess (1525
50)
ch. 2 The Caravaggesque Moment: Roman Charity as Figure of Dissent
ch. 3 Poussin's and Rubens's Long Shadows: Roman Charity, French History Painting, and the Hybridization of Genres
pt. II Texts and Contexts
ch. 4 The Literary Tradition: Erotic Insinuations, Irony, and Ekphrasis
ch. 5 Adult Breastfeeding as Cure: Queer Lactations in Medical Discourse
ch. 6 Charity, Mother of Allegory: Breastfeeding as "Other Speech"
ch. 7 Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Father-Daughter Relations and the Emergence of Absolutism
Appendix
List of Figures
Table: Caravaggisti, Caravaggeschi, and Their Iconographical Choices.
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Queer lactations in early modern visual culture
ISBN
9783837632842 ((pbk.))
3837632849 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2016592868
OCLC
968135622
International Article Number
9783837632842
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