"The wandering life I led" : essays on Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin and early modern women's border crossings / edited by Susan Shifrin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shifrin, Susan, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699.

Mazarin, Hortense Mancini.

Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685--Relations with women.

Charles.

Mistresses--England--Biography.

Mistresses.

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

Women.

France--History--Louis XIV, 1643-1715--Biography.

France.

Great Britain--History--Charles II, 1660-1685--Biography.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--James II, 1685-1688--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book of essays brings together international scholars working on the literary, visual, musical, and theatrical representations and reception of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin, an early modern woman whose literal-geographical-"border crossings" serve here as the starting point for an investigation of her and others' elisions and transgressions of borders of all kinds. The authors lay out strategies for exploring the ways in which she crossed geographical, gendered, cultural, and-in sch...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; EDITOR'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CENTERFOLD; PART II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; CONTRIBUTORS; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-48115-0

9786612481154

1-4438-1184-X

OCLC:

830167808