Marie Antoinette

Writings on the Body of a Queen
Herausgeber: Goodman, Dena; Kaiser, Thomas E

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Produktbeschreibung

Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. This volume explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to put right Marie's identity, and it simultaneously links these struggles to larger destabilizations in social, political and gender systems in France. Looking at how Marie was represented in politics, art, literature and journalism, the contributors to this volume reveal how crucial political and cultural contexts were enacted "on the body of the queen" and on the complex identity of Marie. Taken together, these essays suggest that it is precisely because she came to represent the contradictions in the social, political and gender systems of her era, that Marie remains such an important historical figure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136704895
• ISBN-10: 1136704892
• Artikelnr.: 67128464

Autorenporträt

Dena Goodman is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Her publications include The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the FrenchEnlightenment (1994) and Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France, which she co-edited (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations. Credits. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Not Another
Biography of Marie-Antoinette! A Select Chronology of Marie-Antoinette's
Life. Biographical Sketches of Principal Figures in the Life of
Marie-Antoinette 1. Hapsburg Letters: The Disciplinary Dynamics of
Epistolary Narrative in the Correspondence of Maria Theresa and
Marie-Antoinette 2. The Portrait of the Queen 3. The Diamond Necklace
Affair Revisited (1785-1786): The Case of the Missing Queen 4. The Heroine
of the Crime: Marie-Antoinette in Pamphlets 5. The Many Bodies of
Marie-Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in
the French Revolution 6. Pass as a Woman, Act Like a Man: Marie-Antoinette
as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution 7. Ambiguous
Identities: Marie-Antoinette and the House of Lorraine from the Affair of
the Minuet to Lambesc's Charge 8. Marie-Antoinette Obsession 9. "We're Just
Little People, Louis": Marie-Antoinette on Film 10. Terrorizing
Marie-Antoinette Afterword: The (Ab)uses of Marie-Antoinette. Notes on
Contributors. Index