Polymorphous Domesticities - Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four Modern Writers

Informationen zum Autor Juliana Schiesari ! Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California! Davis! is the author most recently of Beasts and Beauties: Animals! Gender! and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance. Zusammenfassung Maps out the play of gender, sexuality, and alternative forms of domesticity in the works of four modern European and American writers - Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Colette, and J R Ackerley. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Re-Visions of Diana in Edith Wharton 2. Colette at Home 3. Romancing the Beast: J.R. Ackerley's Dog Days and the Meaning of Sex Afterword Bibliography Notes Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Juliana Schiesari, Schiesari Juliana
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.03.2012
• EAN: 9780520270848
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27084-8
• Pagine: 144
• Serie: Flashpoints; Flashpoints
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia; Education, Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literature: history and criticism