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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Valeria FinucciPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.80cm Weight: 0.771kg ISBN: 9780822330547ISBN 10: 0822330547 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 19 March 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAn extremely fascinating and original work. Finucci's book questions the traditional concepts associated with the Italian Renaissance (harmony, spiritual perfection and beauty, etc.) and addresses much less 'luminous' aspects of sixteenth-century Italian culture. Armando Maggi, University of Chicago Valeria Finucci is at it again, patrolling and illuminating the unstable boundaries of sex and gender in early modern Italian culture and literature. Relating canonical literary texts to the medical and legal culture of their times, she explores the fascination that spontaneous generation, cuckoldry, the maternal imagination, androgyny, and the deliberate manufacture of castrati held for early modern Italians--and still hold for us. Walter Stephens, author of Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief Valeria Finucci's book questions the traditional concepts associated with the Italian Renaissance (harmony, spiritual perfection and beauty, etc.) and addresses much less 'luminous' aspects of sixteenth-century Italian culture. -Armando Maggi, author of Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology Valeria Finucci is at it again, patrolling and illuminating the unstable boundaries of sex and gender in early modern Italian culture and literature. Relating canonical literary texts to the medical and legal culture of their times, she explores the fascination that spontaneous generation, cuckoldry, the maternal imagination, androgyny, and the deliberate manufacture of castrati held for early modern Italians-and still hold for us. -Walter Stephens, author of Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief """An extremely fascinating and original work. Finucci's book questions the traditional concepts associated with the Italian Renaissance (harmony, spiritual perfection and beauty, etc.) and addresses much less 'luminous' aspects of sixteenth-century Italian culture."" Armando Maggi, University of Chicago ""Valeria Finucci is at it again, patrolling and illuminating the unstable boundaries of sex and gender in early modern Italian culture and literature. Relating canonical literary texts to the medical and legal culture of their times, she explores the fascination that spontaneous generation, cuckoldry, the maternal imagination, androgyny, and the deliberate manufacture of castrati held for early modern Italians--and still hold for us."" Walter Stephens, author of Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief" Author InformationValeria Finucci is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. She is the author of The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto. She is editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso and coeditor of Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, both published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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