The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (932 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0547834381 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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I was not a huge fan of yhis book starting I was not a huge fan of yhis book starting out, because I felt the author was too harsh on Tudor historians who spent their career studying this time period and the people in it. However, she does very well sticking to the known facts about Anne Boleyn and painting a picture of her based on yhe facts. Despite enjoying this book,. For the Anne Shelf Lisa Lo Paro After reading the definitive "Anne Boleyn Bible," also known as Eric Ives' masterpiece The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn, I did not expect to come across another work that made such monumental strides toward interpreting--deconstructing--describing--Anne until I buckled down and read Bordo's sociological study of the many manife. A new narrative on Anne Ilana Leah The Creation of Anne Boleyn is only minimally a biography of Anne Boleyn. Instead, much of the focus is placed on the stories and mystique surrounding this famous queen, and how the "facts" and attitudes about her were developed. This was a fascinating book, which I feel I need to read over at least once more, as there is no way
Drawing on scholarship and razor-sharp analysis, Bordo probes the complexities of one of history’s most intriguing women, teasing out what we actually know about Anne Boleyn and what we think we know about her.“Riveting Bordo’s eloquent study not only recovers Anne Boleyn for our times but also demonstrates the ways in which legends grow out of the faintest wisps of historical fact.” —Book Page“Engrossing Ms. “Bordo’s sharp reading of Boleyniana and her clear affection for this proud, unusual woman make this an entertaining, provocative read.”—Boston GlobePart biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a reconstruction of Boleyn’s
Whether Anne is regarded as a temptress or a feminist precursor, her imaginative force in popular entertainment is one that Bordo perceptively illuminates. Novelists later created a character whom writers revive repeatedly—Anne as a disturber of conventional female roles. From Booklist The inspiration of an extraordinary afterlife in biography, fiction, and cinema, Henry VIII’s second consort undergoes a discerning cultural inspection. --Gilbert Taylor . Connecting speculative passages in their works to biases in contemporary sources, Bordo depicts Anne’s allure to preface the main subject of this work, her image after death. Polemicists of the Reformation invented a satanic Anne for Catholics and a martyred Anne for Protestants. That th