The wicked queen
the origins of the myth of Marie-Antoinette
Edición de la obra The Wicked Queen
| Autor | Thomas, Chantal. |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Zone Books |
| Fecha de publicación | 1999 |
| Lugar | New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 255 |
| ISBN-10 | 0942299396, 094229940X |
| OCLC | 35961483 |
| LCCN | 96050157 |
| Número de Cutter | T455w |
The Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in all history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, a history of her mythification. Almost as soon as Marie-Antoinette, archduchess of Austria was brought to France in 1771 as the bride of Louis XVI, she was smothered in images. In a monarchy increasingly under assault, the charm and horror of her feminine body and her destructive political power as a foreign intruder turned Marie-Antoinette into an alien otherthe bestial "archtigress of Austria." Working as a historian and writing as a novelist, Thomas reveals how Marie-Antoinette came to symbolize the marginalization and negation of women in French society before the French Revolution.