Politics, transgression, and representation at the Court of Charles II

Folger bibliographic ID: 198951
Folger call number: N7630 .P65 2007
Folger holdings ID: 238504
Accession Number: 264523

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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

Women in art Women Arts, English Great Britain

associated with: Alexander, Julia Marciari, 1967-
associated with: MacLeod, Catharine