The Creation of Anne Boleyn View By Susan Bordo
| Title | : | The Creation of Anne Boleyn |
| Author | : | Susan Bordo |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 343 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0547328184 |
A groundbreaking retelling and reclaiming of Anne Boleyn s life and legacy puts old questions to rest and raises some surprising new ones.Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne s life and an illuminating look at her afterlife in the popular imagination Why is Anne so compelling Why has she inspired such A groundbreaking retelling and reclaiming of Anne Boleyn s life and legacy puts old questions to rest and raises some surprising new ones.Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne s life and an illuminating look at her afterlife in the popular imagination Why is Anne so compelling Why has she inspired such extreme reactions What did she really look like Was she the flaxen haired martyr of Romantic paintings or the raven haired seductress of twenty first century portrayals Answer neither And perhaps the most provocative questions concern Anne s death than her life How could Henry order the execution of a once beloved wife Drawing on scholarship and critical analysis, Susan Bordo probes the complexities of one of history s most infamous relationships.Bordo also shows how generations of polemicists, biographers, novelists, and filmmakers imagined and reimagined Anne whore, martyr, cautionary tale, proto mean girl, feminist icon, and everything in between In this lively book, Bordo steps off the well trodden paths of Tudoriana to expertly tease out the human being behind the competing mythologies
about Author
Susan Bordo is known for the clarity, accessibility, and contemporary relevance of her writing Her first book, The Flight to Objectivity, has become a classic of feminist philosophy In 1993, increasingly aware of our culture s preoccupation with weight and body image, she published Unbearable Weight Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, a book that is still widely read and assigned in classe Susan Bordo is known for the clarity, accessibility, and contemporary relevance of her writing Her first book, The Flight to Objectivity, has become a classic of feminist philosophy In 1993, increasingly aware of our culture s preoccupation with weight and body image, she published Unbearable Weight Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, a book that is still widely read and assigned in classes today During speaking tours for that book, she encountered many young men who asked, What about us The result was The Male Body A New Look at Men in Public and in Private 1999 Both books were highly praised by reviewers, with Unbearable Weight named a 1993 Notable Book by the New York Times and The Male Body featured in Mademoiselle, Elle, Vanity Fair, NPR, and MSNBC Both books have been translated into many languages, and individual chapters, many of which are considered paradigms of lucid writing, are frequently re printed in collections and writing textbooks Her newest book, The Creation of Anne Boleyn A New Look at England s Most Notorious Queen, was published to critical acclaim by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April, 2013 She lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband, daughter, two dogs and two cats, and teaches humanities at the University of Kentucky.Bordo received her Ph.D from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982 She currently holds the Otis A Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky 
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private
Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J.
The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture
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A groundbreaking retelling and reclaiming of Anne Boleyn s life and legacy puts old questions to rest and raises some surprising new ones.Part biograp
343 pagesSusan Bordo
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