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Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829 by Gail Margaret Orgelfinger is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Presentación del editor: "In this book, Gail Orgelfinger examines the ways in which English historians and illustrators depicted Joan of Arc over a period of four hundred years, from her capture in 1429 to the early nineteenth century. The variety of epithets attached to Joan of Arc-from 2witch3 and 2Medean virago3 to 2missioned Maid3 and 2shepherd's child3-attests to England's complicated relationship with the saint. While portrayals of Joan in English popular culture evolved over the centuries, they do not follow a straightforward trajectory from vituperation to adulation. Focusing primarily on descriptions of Joan's captivity, trial, and execution, this study shows how the exigencies of politics and the demands of genre shaped English retellings of her military successes, gender transgressions, and execution at the hands of her English enemies. Orgelfinger's research illuminates how and why English writers and artists used the memory of Joan of Arc to grapple with issues such as England's relationship with France, emerging protofeminism in the early modern era, and the sense of national guilt over her execution. A systematic analysis of Joan's English historiography in its poli
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- Author
- Gail Margaret Orgelfinger
- Publisher
- The Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271084275
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction