"The wandering life I led" : essays on Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin and early modern women's border crossings

"The wandering life I led" : essays on Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin and early modern women's border crossings /

This book of essays brings together international scholars working on the literary, visual, musical, and theatrical representations and reception of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin, an early modern woman whose literal-geographical-"border crossings" serve here as the starting point for a...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Shifrin, Susan, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009
Subjects:
Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, > duchesse de, > 1646-1699.
Charles > II, > King of England, > 1630-1685 > Relations with women.
Mistresses > England > Biography.
Women > England > Social conditions > 17th century.
France > History > Louis XIV, 1643-1715 > Biography.
Great Britain > History > Charles II, 1660-1685 > Biography.
Great Britain > History > James II, 1685-1688 > Biography.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:This book of essays brings together international scholars working on the literary, visual, musical, and theatrical representations and reception of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin, an early modern woman whose literal-geographical-"border crossings" serve here as the starting point for an investigation of her and others' elisions and transgressions of borders of all kinds. The authors lay out strategies for exploring the ways in which she crossed geographical, gendered, cultural, and-in sch ...
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 223 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index.
ISBN:9781443811033
1443811033
9781443811842
144381184X
1282481150
9781282481152
9786612481154
6612481153
Access:Legal Deposit;
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Action Note:digitized
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.

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