Marie Antoinette was 'One of Us': British Accounts of the Martyred Wicked Queen.
Examines the response of the British public to the execution of Queen Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. Analysis of the various representations of Marie Antoinette which evoked the sympathetic response to her death from many women in Great Britain during the period; Discussion of how a...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 44; no. 2/3; pp. 233 - 256 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Summer/Fall2003
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| Sumario: | Examines the response of the British public to the execution of Queen Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. Analysis of the various representations of Marie Antoinette which evoked the sympathetic response to her death from many women in Great Britain during the period; Discussion of how a wide variety of writers figure her relation to all women through invocations of sexual difference; Differences of the accounts of the public response to her death among seminal feminist groups in Britain. |
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