Politics, transgression, and representation at the Court of Charles II / edited by Julia Marciari Alexander and Catharine MacLeod.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Julia Marciari, 1967-

MacLeod, Catharine.

Series:

Studies in British art ; 18.

Studies in British art ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in art.

Women--England--Social conditions--17th century.

Women.

Arts, English.

Social conditions.

Great Britain--History--Restoration, 1660-1688.

Great Britain.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

xix, 268 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale Center for British Art ; London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art ; New Haven, CT : distributed by Yale University Press, [2007]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300116564

030011656X

OCLC:

173498851