Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429-1829

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

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