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Record Nr.

UNINA9910863147403321

Autore

Russo Stephanie

Titolo

The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn : Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen / / by Stephanie Russo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer International Publishing, 2020

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-58613-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 320 p.)

Collana

Queenship and Power, , 2730-9398

Disciplina

942.052092

820.9351

Soggetti

Europe - History - 1492-

Civilization - History

Literature - History and criticism

Sex

History of Early Modern Europe

Cultural History

Literary History

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

I1. The It Girl of Tudor England -- 2. Anne Boleyn in the Sixteenth Century -- 3. Anne Boleyn in the Seventeenth Century -- 4. Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 5. Anne Boleyn in Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction -- 6. Anne Boleyn on the Nineteenth-Century Stage -- 7. Anne Boleyn from 1900 to 1950 -- 8. Anne Boleyn from 1950 to 2000 -- 9. Anne Boleyn in Twenty-First-Century Historical Fiction -- 10. Anne Boleyn in Twenty-First-Century Transgeneric Fiction -- 11. Anne Boleyn in Film and Television -- 12. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores 500 years of poetry, drama, novels, television and films about Anne Boleyn. Hundreds of writers across the centuries have been drawn to reimagine the story of her rise and fall. The Afterlife of



Anne Boleyn tells the story of centuries of these shifting and often contradictory ways of understanding the narrative of Henry VIII’s most infamous queen. Since her execution on 19 May 1536, Anne’s life and body has been a site upon which competing religious, political and sexual ideologies have been inscribed; a practice that continues to this day. From the poetry of Thomas Wyatt to the songs of the hit pop musical Six, The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn takes as its central contention the belief that the mythology that surrounds Anne Boleyn is as interesting, revealing, and surprising as the woman herself. .