Author Emily Kuffner. ISBN Format Hardback. Number of pages Language English. Publication date 09 - 01 - Discipline History, Art History, and Archaeology. Preview Download Preview. This book is without a doubt an important contribution to the area of early modern studies and should be a required reading for any professional in the field.
Emily Kuffner Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque Architectural Space and Prostitution in the Early Modern Mediterranean This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the inception of architecture as a discipline and gave rise to the first custodial institutions for women, including convents for reformed prostitutes.
Meanwhile, conduct manuals established prescriptive mandates for female use of space, concentrating especially on the liminal spaces of the home. This work traces literary prostitution in the Spanish Mediterranean through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the rise of courtesan culture in several key areas through the shift from tolerance of prostitution toward repression.
By tracing erotic negotiations in the female picaresque novel from its origins through later manifestations, she demonstrates that even as societal attitudes towards prostitution shifted dramatically, a countervailing tendency to view prostitution as an essential part of the social fabric undergirds many representations of literary prostitutes.
Order from Rest of the World. Order from North America. Her research focuses on literary prostitution in the picaresque genre, gender studies, humoral medicine, and the botanical in literature. Related titles. Inconvenient Heritage Jos van Beurden.
