At 09:06 10/02/99 +0000, you wrote:
>In Spanish literature and art around 1780-1808, there are many instances
in which members of the fashionable young set are compared to apes. There
is a drawing by Goya of the years 1797-99, named The magical mirror in
which a dandy sees his image transformed into a monkey.
>There is a lot of useful information about this kind of animalizations in
the article by Rene Andioc 'Goya y el temperamento currutaquico', Bulletin
of Hispanic Studies 68 (1991), 67-89. See also ch. 3 'Reading the body:
Petimetres, Physiognomics and Gendered Otherness' in the recent book by
Rebecca Haidt Embodying Enlightenment: Knowing the Body in Eighteenth-
Century Spanish Literature and Culture (N.Y.: St. Martins Press, 1998).
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>Gabriel Sanchez-Espinosa
>Hispanic Studies. Q.U.B
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Don'r forget Lord Monboddo
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Dr Conrad Brunstrom
Dept of English
University of Ireland Maynooth
Maynooth,
Co. Kildare
Republic of Ireland
TEL + 708 3543
TEL + 628 9676
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