Description
"Bordo's sharp reading of Boleyniana and her clear affection for this proud, unusual woman make this an entertaining, provocative read."--Boston Globe
Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a reconstruction of Boleyn's life and an illuminating look at her very active afterlife in the popular imagination. With recent novels, movies, and television shows, Anne has been having a twenty-first-century moment, but Bordo shows how many generations of polemicists, biographers, novelists, and filmmakers have imagined and reimagined her: whore, martyr, cautionary tale, proto-"mean girl," feminist icon, and everything in between. Drawing on scholarship and razor-sharp analysis, Bordo probes the complexities of one of history's most intriguing women, teasing out what we actually know about Anne Boleyn and what we think we know about her.
"Riveting . . . Bordo's eloquent study not only recovers Anne Boleyn for our times but also demonstrates the ways in which legends grow out of the faintest wisps of historical fact." --Book Page
"Engrossing . . . Ms. Bordo offers a fascinating discussion."--New York Times
Author: Susan Bordo
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.29w x 0.98d
ISBN13: 9780547834382
ISBN10: 0547834381
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Literary Criticism | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
About the Author
SUSAN BORDO, who holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, is the author of Unbearable Weight and The Male Body.