Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds

Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century

Av Simon Burrows, Jonathan Conlin, Russell Goulbourne, Valerie Mainz

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Beskrivning

These essays draw on new research into Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual life, exploring how a gender identity could come to be negotiated over time. Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death. Not surprisingly, such sensational material has attracted the attention of enthusiasts, scholars and literateurs to 'the strange case of the chevalier d'Eon'. He has also attracted the attention of psychologists and sexologists, and for most of the last century his gender transformation has been viewed through a Freudian lens. His cross-dressing, it was usually assumed, must have a psychosexual explanation. The essays in this collection contribute to d'Eon's rehabilitation as a figure worthy of scholarly attention and display a variety of disciplinary approaches.Drawing on new research into d'Eon's life, this volume offers original and nuanced readings of how a gender identity could come to be negotiated over time.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2010-02-26
Mått: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt: 570 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 272
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780826422781

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Simon Burrows is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Leeds. Jonathan Conlin is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Southampton. Valerie Mainz is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Fine Art, University of Leeds. She specialises in C18th French art and the French Revolution. Russell Golbourne is Professor of Early modern French literature at the University of Leeds.

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The editors of this book have brought together 15 essays...shedding light on various aspects of the chevalier’s life and on the social, political and cultural contexts he/she moved in... The book offers a captivating and highly readable perspective on eighteenth-century French society, looking at issues which are often neglected or under-researched... What is remarkable is the way in which many of the authors use cultural theories in a way that not only helps to shed light on the history of eighteenth-century France but also contributes to the problematization of some issues of cultural theory. From this angle, the volume represents an important meeting point of different disciplines... d’Eon is intelligently placed in his own cultural and social context so that the book represents an important contribution to the history of the period more generally. Its relevance clearly goes beyond the study of d’Eon.

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