Politics, transgression, and representation at the Court of Charles II
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Politics, transgression, and representation at the Court of Charles II
(Studies in British art, 18)
Yale Center for British Art , Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art , Distributed by Yale University Press, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- "Thy longing country's darling and desire": aesthetics, sex, and politics in the England of Charles II / Kevin Sharpe
- "There is none that loves him but drunk whores and whoremongers": popular criticisms of the Restoration court / Tim Harris
- Love pleasant, love unfortunate: women in seventeenth-century popular prints / Sheila O'Connell
- The "Windsor beauties" and the beauties series in Restoration England / Catharine MacLeod, Julia Marciari Alexander
- Sites of instruction: Andrew Marvell and the tropes of Restoration portraiture / Steven N. Zwicker
- "Subdued by a famous Roman dame": picturing foreignness, notoriety, and prerogative in the portraits of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin / Susan Shifrin
- The female politician in the late Stuart Age / Rachel Weil
- The apotheosis of absolutism and the interrupted masque: theater, music, and monarchy in Restoration England / Andrew R. Walkling
- Celebrity erotics: Pepys, performance, and painted ladies / Joseph Roach
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Description
The return of Charles II to the English throne after eleven years of Interregnum heralded the beginning of a new era in which the court was characterized by the licentious behavior of the new king. Edited by the authors of the critically acclaimed Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II (2002), this book brings together ten distinguished scholars of history, literature, music, theatre, and art to explore the political and cultural implications of the court's transgressive new character. With particular reference to the perception and representation of women, it offers a varied examination of topics including popular prints and broadsheets; court masque; poetry and painted portraits; and the operation of women in the political sphere.
Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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