Boudica's Odyssey in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9781138253841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 242 str.

Samantha Frenee-Hutchins

Opis

This diachronic study serves as a sourcebook of references to Boudica in the early modern period and gives a general overview of the ways in which her story was interpreted, presented and fragmented by various history writers and literary figures. It also examines the apparatus of state ideology which processed the social, religious and political representations of Boudica for public absorption and added to the myth we have today of Boudica in popular culture.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Reclaiming British History; Chapter 2 Female Power:Force, Freedom and Fallacy; Chapter 3 King of Great Britain; Chapter 4 Taming the Wild in Fletcher’s Tragedie; Chapter 5 The Legacy of Boudica;

O autorze

Samantha Frénée-Hutchins is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Orléans University, France.