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The Chevalier d'Eon and his worlds : gender, espionage and politics in the eighteenth century / / edited by Simon Burrows [and three others]
| The Chevalier d'Eon and his worlds : gender, espionage and politics in the eighteenth century / / edited by Simon Burrows [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (694 p.) |
| Disciplina | 327.4400820904 |
| Soggetto topico |
Diplomats - France
Spies - France |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4411-4545-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover 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
Gender and Representation6 A 'monster of metamorphosis': Reassessing the Chevalier/Chevalière 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 privée 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 Chevalière d'Eon; Marilyn Morris; Heroes and Heroines 11 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 abbé 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 Rachel 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464458103321 |
| London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Chevalier d'Eon and his worlds : gender, espionage and politics in the eighteenth century / / edited by Simon Burrows [and three others]
| The Chevalier d'Eon and his worlds : gender, espionage and politics in the eighteenth century / / edited by Simon Burrows [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (694 p.) |
| Disciplina | 327.4400820904 |
| Soggetto topico |
Diplomats - France
Spies - France |
| ISBN | 1-4411-4545-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover 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
Gender and Representation6 A 'monster of metamorphosis': Reassessing the Chevalier/Chevalière 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 privée 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 Chevalière d'Eon; Marilyn Morris; Heroes and Heroines 11 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 abbé 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 Rachel 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786922603321 |
| London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The Chevalier d'Eon and his worlds : gender, espionage and politics in the eighteenth century / / edited by Simon Burrows [and three others]
| The Chevalier d'Eon and his worlds : gender, espionage and politics in the eighteenth century / / edited by Simon Burrows [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (694 p.) |
| Disciplina | 327.4400820904 |
| Soggetto topico |
Diplomats - France
Spies - France |
| ISBN | 1-4411-4545-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover 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
Gender and Representation6 A 'monster of metamorphosis': Reassessing the Chevalier/Chevalière 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 privée 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 Chevalière d'Eon; Marilyn Morris; Heroes and Heroines 11 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 abbé 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 Rachel 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813831503321 |
| London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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