{"product_id":"masculinities-and-representation-the-eroticized-male-in-early-modern-italy-and-england-hardback-9781487556976","title":"Masculinities and Representation; The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England (Hardback) 9781487556976","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMasculinities and Representation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKonrad Eisenbichler (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487556976\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn studies on premodern masculinities that have enriched scholarship in recent years, relatively little attention has been paid to the eroticizing of the male body. \u003cem\u003eMasculinities and Representation\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to fill this lacuna, illustrating how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity. In so doing, this collection details how, as a social construct, masculinity was not a single concept, but a dynamic and intricate notion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFocusing on the premodern period, \u003cem\u003eMasculinities and Representation\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how heteronormative masculinity was affirmed, but also how it was challenged when the male body was eroticized in art, literature, and devotion, or when \"masculine\" norms were transgressed by the assumption of \"feminine\" behaviours. Ultimately, the book demonstrates how masculinity itself could be transgressive in its focus of affection or in its inherent ambiguities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eJames M. Saslow\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I. Religion, Heavenly Art, Earthly Bodies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Bathing and Bonding: Sensual Male Imagery in Italian Paintings of Baptism\u003cbr\u003eSteven F.H. Stowell \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Blasphemous or Beautiful? Leonardo da Vinci\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eSt John the Baptist\u003c\/em\u003e, Holy Masculinity, and Its Ambiguities ca. 1500\u003cbr\u003eAnne L. Williams\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Sharing a Bed with Dominic: Celibacy and Masculinity in the Cult of St. Vincent Ferrer\u003cbr\u003eLaura Ackerman Smoller\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Body of Christ: Suffering and Desire in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola\u0026amp;#x2019;s\u003cem\u003e De Venere et Cupidine Expellendis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarco Piana\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II. Women and Men: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Desire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. \u003cem\u003eA Dio Zerbini a Dio, a Dio Narcisi:\u003c\/em\u003e Satirizing Effeminacy in Margherita Costa\u0026amp;#x2019;s Florentine Works (1638–1641) \u003cbr\u003eSara E. Díaz \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Masculine-Feminine Dichotomy in the Sixteenth Century: Mythological \u003cem\u003eDonna con Donna\u003c\/em\u003e Images from Fontainebleau and Northern Italy\u003cbr\u003eTara White \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III. Knowledge and Emotions: Forbidden and Required\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Wounded Histories on the Stages of Old and New Worlds: Vivaldi\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eMotezuma\u003c\/em\u003e and the Cries of Conquest\u003cbr\u003eKate Driscoll\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Male Courtly Feeling and the Historical Performativity of Shyness in \u003cem\u003eA Midsummer Night\u0026amp;#x2019;s Dream\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eTiffany Hoffman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Latin Epigrams and Early Modern Sexual Knowledge: Or, How Jonson Read His Martial\u003cbr\u003eIan Frederick Moulton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739657597208,"sku":"9781487556976","price":50.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/masculinities-and-representation-the-eroticized-male-in-early-modern-italy-and-england-hardback-9781487556976","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}