LEADER 04035nam 2200733 450 001 9910458644203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8691-X 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442686915 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054302 035 $a(OCoLC)759157384 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442609 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486800 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11311961 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486800 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10442903 035 $a(PQKB)10659084 035 $a(CEL)433730 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226221 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272820 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672498 035 $a(DE-B1597)464115 035 $a(OCoLC)1013939284 035 $a(OCoLC)944176900 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442686915 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672498 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258165 035 $a(OCoLC)958514530 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054302 100 $a20160923h20102010 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Protestant whore $ecourtesan narrative and religious controversy in England, 1680-1750 /$fAlison Conway 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4426-4137-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Invention of the Protestant Whore -- $t2. 'No Neuters in Treason': Aphra Behn's Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister -- $t3. The Secret History of Women's Political Desire, 1690-1714 -- $t4. 'A House Divided': Defoe's Roxana and the Protestant Body Politic -- $t5. A World of One's Own: Clarissa, Tom Jones, and Courtesan Authority -- $tAfterword -- $tHistorical Glossary -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAfter the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly influenced by his Catholic mistresses. Nell Gwyn, actress and royal mistress, stood apart by virtue of her Protestant loyalty. In 1681, Gwyn, her carriage surrounded by an angry anti-Catholic mob, famously declared 'I am the protestant whore.' Her self-branding invites an investigation into the alignment between sex and politics during this period, and in this study, Alison Conway relates courtesan narrative to cultural and religious anxieties.In new readings of canonical works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Richardson, Conway argues that authors engaged the same questions about identity, nation, authority, literature, and politics as those pursued by Restoration polemicists. Her study reveals the recurring connection between sexual impropriety and religious heterodoxy in Restoration thought, and Nell Gwyn, writ large as the nation's Protestant Whore, is shown to be a significant figure of sexual, political, and religious controversy. 606 $aEnglish fiction$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCourtesans in literature 606 $aProtestantism in literature 606 $aPolitics in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCourtesans in literature. 615 0$aProtestantism in literature. 615 0$aPolitics in literature. 676 $a823.409/353 700 $aConway$b Alison Margaret$0983255 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458644203321 996 $aThe Protestant whore$92244555 997 $aUNINA