Roman Charity ：Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture ( Image )

Publication subTitle ：Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture

Publication series ：Image

Author： Sperling Jutta Gisela  

Publisher： transcript-Verlag‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9783839432846

Subject： C913.14 gender issues

Keyword： 信息与知识传播,社会学,世界史,艺术理论

Language： ENG

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Description

»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 »charity«, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It analyses why 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. Jutta Gisela Sperling discusses the different visual contexts in which »Roman Charity« flourished and reconstructs contemporary horizons of expectation by reference to literary sources, medical practice, and legal culture.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: IMAGES

Chapter 1. Breastfeeding Pero: Sign of Desire, Transgression, and Dionysian Excess (1525–50)

Chapter 2. The Caravaggesque Moment: Roman Charity as Figure of Dissent

Chapter 3. Poussin’s and Rubens’s Long Shadows: Roman Charity, French History Painting, and the Hybridization of Genres

PART II: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS

Chapter 4. The Literary Tradition: Erotic Insinuations, Irony, and Ekphrasis

Chapter 5. Adult Breastfeeding as Cure: Queer Lactations in Medical Discourse

Chapter 6. Charity, Mother of Allegory: Breastfeeding as “Other Speech”

Chapter 7. Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Father-Daughter Relations and the Emergence of Absolutism

APPENDIX

List of Figures

Table: Caravaggisti, Caravaggeschi, and Their Iconographical Choices

Works Cited

Index of Artists

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