Roman charity : : queer lactations in early modern visual culture / / Jutta Gisela Sperling.
»Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the concept of Catholic »...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Image (Transcript (Firm)) ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (430 pages) :; illustrations (some colour); digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Chapter 1. Breastfeeding Pero 37 Chapter 2. The Caravaggesque Moment 103 Chapter 3. Poussin's and Rubens's Long Shadows 175 Chapter 4. The Literary Tradition 231 Chapter 5. Adult Breastfeeding as Cure 269 Chapter 6. Charity, Mother of Allegory 307 Chapter 7. Patriarchy and Its Discontents 351 List of Figures 375 Table. Caravaggisti, Caravaggeschi, and Their Iconographical Choices1 387 Works Cited 393 Index of Artists 427