Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 386 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520209338
,
0520919343
,
159734592X
,
9780520209336
,
9780520919341
,
9781597345927
Content:
Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is a comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in 17th-century opera
Content:
The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520209338
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520209336
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Heller, Wendy Beth Emblems of eloquence Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Heller, Wendy 1955-
