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The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinet
by Thomas, Chantal | PB | VeryGood
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780942299403
- Book Title
- Wicked Queen : the Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Royalty, Europe / France, Revolutionary, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 14.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of one of the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today. In The Wicked Queen , Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of one of the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today. Almost as soon as Marie-Antoinette, archduchess of Austria, was brought to France as the bride of Louis XVI in 1771, she was smothered in images. In a monarchy increasingly under assault, the charm and horror of her feminine body and her political power as a foreign intruder turned Marie-Antoinette into an alien other. Marie-Antoinette's mythification, argues Thomas, must be interpreted as the misogynist demonization of women's power and authority in revolutionary France.In a series of pamphlets written from the 1770s until her death in 1793, Marie-Antoinette is portrayed as a spendthrift, a libertine, an orgiastic lesbian, and a poisoner and infant murderess. In her analyses of these pamphlets, seven of which appear here in translation for the first time, Thomas reconstructs how the mounting hallucinatory and libelous discourse culminated in the inevitable destruction of what had become the counterrevolutionary symbol par excellence. The Wicked Queen exposes the elaborate process by which the myth of Marie-Antoinette emerged as a crucial element in the successful staging of the French Revolution.
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Publisher
Zone Books
ISBN-10
094229940x
ISBN-13
9780942299403
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038909278
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wicked Queen : the Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Royalty, Europe / France, Revolutionary, Historical
Publication Year
2001
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
14.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Dc137.1.T5613 1999
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Edition Description
Reprint
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The Wicked Queen ...makes the excellent and essential point that no attempt should be made, as was sometimes done in the past, to link these [pornographic pamphlets] with their real-life subject, either as 'outrageous slander' or as her 'just deserts.'
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
96-050157
Dewey Decimal
944/.035/092
Dewey Edition
21
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