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Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429-1829

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Explores representations of Joan of Arc in English culture from 1429 until the early nineteenth century, examining the factors that shaped retellings of her military successes and execution.


List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Text

Introduction: “Those Cursed Breeches”

1 “We Have Burned a Saint”: Joan of Arc and the English in France

2 “The Martiall Maide”: Joan of Arc and the French in England

3 “Penthesilea Did It. Why Not She?”: An English Virago

4 “A Pievish Painted Puzel”: Joan of Arc and Mary Queen of Scots in 1 Henry VI

5 “Tom Paine in Petticoats”: Domesticating Joan of Arc

Afterword: “Is That Meant to Be Me?”

Notes

Bibliography

Index



“A work of panoramic scope that touches an array of perspectives, from that of an unidentified soldier present at her burning all the way up to Shakespeare.”

—Scott Manning, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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