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From the time Catterina Vizzani, a young Roman woman, began wooing
the woman she was attracted to, she did so dressed as a man.
Fleeing Rome to avoid a potential trial for sexual misdeeds, she
became Giovanni Bordoni, transitioning and becoming a male in
spirit, deed, and body, through what was the most complete physical
change possible in the eighteenth century. This volume features
Giovanni Bianchi's 1744 Italian account of Vizzani/Bordoni,
published for the first time together with a modern English
translation, making available to an English-speaking audience the
objective, scientific exploration of gender conducted by Bianchi.
John Cleland's well-known, albeit fanciful, 1751 version of the
story has also been reproduced here, shedding light on the
divergent sexual politics driving Bianchi's Italian original and
Cleland's greatly embellished English translation. Through a close
examination of Bianchi's work as anatomical practitioner and
scholar, Clorinda Donato traces the development of his advocacy for
tolerance of all sexual orientations. Several chapters address the
medical and philosophical inquiry into sexual preference,
reproduction, sexual identity, and gender fluidity which
Enlightenment anatomists from Holland to Italy engaged with in
their research concerning the relationship between the mind and the
reproductive organs. Meanwhile, it is the social implications of
gender ambiguity which may be analysed in Cleland's condemnation of
women who "pass" as men. Drawing on the biographies produced by
Bianchi and Cleland, the volume reflects on the motivation of each
author to tell the story of Vizzani/Bordoni either as a narration
of empowerment or a cautionary tale within the European context of
evolving sexual opinions, some based on scientific research, others
based on social practice and cultural norms.
What did Europe owe Spain in the eighteenth century? This infamous
question, posed by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers in the
Encyclopedie methodique, caused an international uproar at the
height of the Enlightenment. His polemical article 'Espagne', with
its tabloid-like prose, resonated with a French-reading public that
blamed the Spanish Empire for France's eroding economy. Spain was
outraged, and responded by publishing its own translation-rebuttal,
the article 'Espana' penned by Julian de Velasco for the Spanish
Encyclopedia metodica. In this volume, the original French and
Spanish articles are presented in facing-page English translations,
allowing readers to examine the content and rhetorical maneuvers of
Masson's challenge and Velasco's riposte. This comparative format,
along with the editors' critical introduction, extensive
annotations, and an accompanying bibliographical essay, reveals how
knowledge was translated and transferred across Europe and the
transatlantic world. The two encyclopedia articles bring to life a
crucial period of Spanish history, culture and commerce, while
offering an alternative framework for understanding the
intellectual underpinnings of a Spanish Enlightenment that differed
radically from French philosophie. Ultimately, this book uncovers a
Spain determined to claim its place in the European Enlightenment
and on the geopolitical stage.
This handbook explores the rich and as yet understudied field of
women’s writing during the nation-building years that
characterized the global politics of the long nineteenth century.
In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, the waning of
the Spanish Empire, subsequent Latin American uprisings, and the
Italian Risorgimento, nineteenth-century women writers cracked wide
open the myths of gender, race, and class that had sustained
the ancien régime. This volume shows that the transnational
networks of women writing about politics, sexuality, economics, and
the forging of the modern nation were much broader and more
inclusive at a global level than has previously been understood.
The handbook uniquely foregrounds French, Italian, Latin American,
and Spanish women writers, focusing on the transnational nature of
their relationships and cultural production within a growing body
of research that casts an ever-wider net in the effort to document
women’s voices.
This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity
of reflections and readings of John Fante's 1939 classic, Ask the
Dust, a true testament to the work's present and future impact. The
contributors to this work-writers, critics, fans, scholars,
screenwriters, directors, and others-analyze the provocative set of
diaspora tensions informing Fante's masterpiece that distinguish it
from those accounts of earlier East Coast migrations and minglings.
A must-read for aficionados of L.A. fiction and new migration
literature, John Fante's "Ask the Dust": A Joining of Voices and
Views is destined for landmark status as the first volume of Fante
studies to reveal the novel's evolving intertextualities and
intersectionalities. Contributors: Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski,
Stephen Cooper, Giovanna DiLello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa
Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Philippe Garnier, Robert Guffey, Ryan
Holiday, Jan Louter, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Meagan Meylor, J'aime
Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Danny
Shain, Robert Towne, Joel Williams
This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity
of reflections and readings of John Fante's 1939 classic, Ask the
Dust, a true testament to the work's present and future impact. The
contributors to this work-writers, critics, fans, scholars,
screenwriters, directors, and others-analyze the provocative set of
diaspora tensions informing Fante's masterpiece that distinguish it
from those accounts of earlier East Coast migrations and minglings.
A must-read for aficionados of L.A. fiction and new migration
literature, John Fante's "Ask the Dust": A Joining of Voices and
Views is destined for landmark status as the first volume of Fante
studies to reveal the novel's evolving intertextualities and
intersectionalities. Contributors: Miriam Amico, Charles Bukowski,
Stephen Cooper, Giovanna DiLello, John Fante, Valerio Ferme, Teresa
Fiore, Daniel Gardner, Philippe Garnier, Robert Guffey, Ryan
Holiday, Jan Louter, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Meagan Meylor, J'aime
Morrison, Nathan Rabin, Alan Rifkin, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Danny
Shain, Robert Towne, Joel Williams
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The Secret Child (Paperback)
Jean-Michel Olivier; Translated by Laurence Moscato; Edited by Clorinda Donato
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R498
Discovery Miles 4 980
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This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the
Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations
of pivotal masterpieces of Neapolitan art, literature, philosophy,
theater. The book also presents the city of Naples as a cultural
space in which the body functions as a visual, literary, and urban
metaphor. By examining the works of Giordano Bruno, Caravaggio,
Giambattista Basile, Silvio Fiorillo and Raimondo di Sangro,
Principe di San Severo, the essays comprising this volume show the
contribution of these world renowned figures to the Baroque imagery
of Naples, but also highlight the impact the city had on their
work. Finally, the book stirs reflection on the enduring presence
and current revival of the Neapolitan Baroque, by looking at
contemporary culture and the cinematic adaptation of baroque works,
such as Matteo Garrone's Tale of Tales.
In recent years scholars have turned their attention to the rich
experience of the Jesuits in France and Spain's American colonies.
That attention has brought a flow of new editions and translations
of Jesuit accounts of the Americas; it is now time for a study that
examines the full range of that work in a comparative perspective.
Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas offers the first
comprehensive examination of such writings and the role they played
in solidifying images of the Americas. The collection also provides
a much-needed re-examination of the work of the Jesuits in relation
to Enlightenment ideals and the modern social sciences and
humanities - two systems of thought that have in the past appeared
radically opposed, but which are brought together here under the
rubric of modern ethnographic knowledge. Linking Jesuit texts, the
rhetorical tradition, and the newly emerging anthropology of the
Enlightenment, this collection traverses the vast expanses of Old
and New World France and Spain in fascinating new ways.
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