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Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429-1829

  • ISBN-13: 9780271082196
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Gail Orgelfinger
  • Price: AUD $75.99
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  • Local release date: 14/07/2020
  • Format: Paperback (227.00mm X 151.00mm) 248 pages Weight: 360g
  • Categories: History [HB]
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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 “witch and “Medean virago to “missioned Maid and “shepherd's child—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 political and social contexts, this volume sheds light on four centuries of English thought on Joan of Arc. It will be welcomed by specialist and general readers alike, especially those interested in women's studies.

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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