Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II

WARNING

You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com

Edited by Julia Marciari Alexander and Catharine MacLeod; With essays by Tim Harris, Sheila O'Connell, Joseph Roach, Kevin Sharpe, Susan Shifrin, Andrew R. Walkling, Rachel Weil, and Steven N. Zwicker

View Inside Format: Cloth
Price: $65.00
YUP
Our shopping cart only supports Mozilla Firefox. Please ensure you're using that browser before attempting to purchase.

The return of Charles II to the English throne after eleven years of Interregnum heralded the beginning of a new era in which the court was characterized by the licentious behavior of the new king. Edited by the authors of the critically acclaimed Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II (2002), this book brings together ten distinguished scholars of history, literature, music, theatre, and art to explore the political and cultural implications of the court’s transgressive new character. With particular reference to the perception and representation of women, it offers a varied examination of topics including popular prints and broadsheets; court masque; poetry and painted portraits; and the operation of women in the political sphere.


Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Catharine MacLeod is Seventeenth-Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Julia Marciari Alexander is Associate Director for Exhibitions and Publications at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.
ISBN: 9780300116564
Publication Date: February 28, 2008
Publishing Partner: Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
288 pages, 7 x 10
3 b/w + 57 color illus.