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] |
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 | ||
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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] |
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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Edmond Combes : l'Abyssinien, 1812-1848 : la passion de l'Orient / / Paul Tirand |
Autore | Tirand Paul |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris : , : L'Harmattan, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
Disciplina | 327.2092 |
Collana | Espaces littéraires |
Soggetto topico | Diplomats - France |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 2-296-25668-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463025403321 |
Tirand Paul | ||
Paris : , : L'Harmattan, , [2010] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Edmond Combes : l'Abyssinien, 1812-1848 : la passion de l'Orient / / Paul Tirand |
Autore | Tirand Paul |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris : , : L'Harmattan, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
Disciplina | 327.2092 |
Collana | Espaces littéraires |
Soggetto topico | Diplomats - France |
Soggetto non controllato | French political and diplomatic history - 19th century - Biography |
ISBN | 2-296-25668-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785710803321 |
Tirand Paul | ||
Paris : , : L'Harmattan, , [2010] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Edmond Combes : l'Abyssinien, 1812-1848 : la passion de l'Orient / / Paul Tirand |
Autore | Tirand Paul |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris : , : L'Harmattan, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
Disciplina | 327.2092 |
Collana | Espaces littéraires |
Soggetto topico | Diplomats - France |
Soggetto non controllato | French political and diplomatic history - 19th century - Biography |
ISBN | 2-296-25668-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817349503321 |
Tirand Paul | ||
Paris : , : L'Harmattan, , [2010] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Improbable patriot [[electronic resource] ] : the secret history of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French playwright who saved the American Revolution / / Harlow Giles Unger |
Autore | Unger Harlow G. <1931-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hanover [N.H.], : University Press of New England, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina |
842/.5
B |
Soggetto topico |
Dramatists, French - 18th century
Diplomats - France |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-87519-5
1-61168-216-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | We must help the Americans -- Gold by god! : the fuel of life! -- Last night poor, wealthy today! -- So you mistreat some poor devil-- till he trembles in disgrace! -- I'm the busiest, cleverest fellow I know -- Plotting and pocketing -- I wish to serve your country as if it were my own -- Figaro here, figaro there -- Bright people are so stupid -- What did you do to earn so many rewards? -- Tout finit par des chansons = Everything ends in song -- All of which proves that a son of a clod can be worth his weight in gold. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457931303321 |
Unger Harlow G. <1931-> | ||
Hanover [N.H.], : University Press of New England, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Improbable patriot [[electronic resource] ] : the secret history of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French playwright who saved the American Revolution / / Harlow Giles Unger |
Autore | Unger Harlow G. <1931-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hanover [N.H.], : University Press of New England, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina |
842/.5
B |
Soggetto topico |
Dramatists, French - 18th century
Diplomats - France |
ISBN |
1-283-87519-5
1-61168-216-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | We must help the Americans -- Gold by god! : the fuel of life! -- Last night poor, wealthy today! -- So you mistreat some poor devil-- till he trembles in disgrace! -- I'm the busiest, cleverest fellow I know -- Plotting and pocketing -- I wish to serve your country as if it were my own -- Figaro here, figaro there -- Bright people are so stupid -- What did you do to earn so many rewards? -- Tout finit par des chansons = Everything ends in song -- All of which proves that a son of a clod can be worth his weight in gold. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781713003321 |
Unger Harlow G. <1931-> | ||
Hanover [N.H.], : University Press of New England, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Improbable patriot [[electronic resource] ] : the secret history of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French playwright who saved the American Revolution / / Harlow Giles Unger |
Autore | Unger Harlow G. <1931-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hanover [N.H.], : University Press of New England, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina |
842/.5
B |
Soggetto topico |
Dramatists, French - 18th century
Diplomats - France |
ISBN |
1-283-87519-5
1-61168-216-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | We must help the Americans -- Gold by god! : the fuel of life! -- Last night poor, wealthy today! -- So you mistreat some poor devil-- till he trembles in disgrace! -- I'm the busiest, cleverest fellow I know -- Plotting and pocketing -- I wish to serve your country as if it were my own -- Figaro here, figaro there -- Bright people are so stupid -- What did you do to earn so many rewards? -- Tout finit par des chansons = Everything ends in song -- All of which proves that a son of a clod can be worth his weight in gold. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815347003321 |
Unger Harlow G. <1931-> | ||
Hanover [N.H.], : University Press of New England, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mémoires du général de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence, grand écuyer de l'Empereur. Tome I |
Autore | Caulaincourt Duc de Vincence, Général de Division Armand Augustin Louis de |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | San Francisco : , : Wagram Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 pages) |
Disciplina | 940.274092 |
Altri autori (Persone) | HanoteauHanoteau |
Collana | Mémoires du général de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence, grand écuyer de l'Empereur. |
Soggetto topico |
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Diplomats - France |
ISBN |
9781908902177
1908902175 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Start. |
Altri titoli varianti | Mémoires du général de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence, grand écuyer de l’Empereur |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910164074903321 |
Caulaincourt Duc de Vincence, Général de Division Armand Augustin Louis de | ||
San Francisco : , : Wagram Press, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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