LEADER 04156nam 2200589 450 001 9910464458103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4411-4545-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000109476 035 $a(EBL)1744088 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001143258 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11660874 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001143258 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11109259 035 $a(PQKB)11435903 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1744088 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1744088 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10867535 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL615980 035 $a(OCoLC)893336661 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000109476 100 $a20140514h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe Chevalier d'Eon and his worlds $egender, espionage and politics in the eighteenth century /$fedited by Simon Burrows [and three others] 210 1$aLondon, England ;$aNew York, New York :$cContinuum,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (694 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8264-2278-0 327 $aCover Page; Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Career and Politics 1762-1785; 1 The Chevalier d'Eon, Media Manipulation and the Making of an Eighteenth-Century Celebrity; Simon Burrows; 2 On the Art of Diplomacy and the Art of Describing Diplomacy: The Chevalier d'Eon and British Political Life at the End of the Seven Years' War; Edmond Dziembowski; 3 'Faire le Wilkes': the Chevalier d'Eon and the Wilkites, 1762-1775; Jonathan Conlin; 4 Beaumarchais and d'Eon: What an Affair; Donald C. Spinelli; 5 D'Eon and Tonnerre, 1779-1784; Elisabeth Chaussin 327 $aGender and Representation6 A 'monster of metamorphosis': Reassessing the Chevalier/Chevalie?re d'Eon's Change of Gender; Stephen Brogan; 7 Dressing d'Eon; Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell; 8 The Chevalier d'Eon and his Several Identities; Valerie Mainz; 9 La Vie militaire, politique et prive?e de Melle d'Eon (1779): Biography and the Art of Manipulation; Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre; 10 Identity, Gender, Genre and Truth in Th e Maiden of Tonnerre:The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and Chevalie?re d'Eon; Marilyn Morris; Heroes and Heroines 327 $a11 The Myth of the Amazons in the Eighteenth Century and theLegend of the Chevalier d'EonAlexandre Stroev; 12 Transvestite Traditions and Narrative Discontinuities: d'Eonand the abbe? de Choisy; Joseph Harris; 13 The Chevalier d'Eon, Rousseau and New Ideas of Gender, Sexand the Self in the Late Eighteenth Century; Anna Clark; 14 Louvet's Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas: Sexual, Politicaland Textual Imbroglios; Simon Davies; 15 An Eighteenth-Century French Commonwealthman?Exploring the Context of the Chevalier d'Eon's Translation ofMarchamont Nedham's Th e Excellencie of a Free State 327 $aRachel HammersleyA Note on the d'Eon Archive in the Brotherton Collection,Leeds University Library; Chris Sheppard; AfterwordD'Eon: Christian, Woman and Autobiographer; Gary Kates; Index; eCopyright 330 $aCross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death. Not surprisingly, such sensational material has attracted the attention of enthusiasts, scholars and literateurs to 'the strange case of the chevalier d'Eon'. He has also attracted the attention of psycholo 606 $aDiplomats$zFrance$vBiography 606 $aSpies$zFrance$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDiplomats 615 0$aSpies 676 $a327.4400820904 702 $aBurrows$b Simon 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464458103321 996 $aThe Chevalier d'Eon and his worlds$92095712 997 $aUNINA