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Protestant Whore

Name: Protestant Whore
Brand: University Of Toronto Press
SKU: 04797490
Price: 77.89 EUR
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Author: Alison Conway
ISBN: 9781442641372

by Alison Conway

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: University Of Toronto Press, 2010
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After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly influenced by his Catholic mistresses. Nell Gwyn, actress and royal mistress, stood apart by virtue of her Protestant loyalty. In 1681, Gwyn, her carriage surrounded by an angry anti-Catholic mob, famously declared 'I am the protestant whore.' Her self-branding invites an investigation into the alignment between sex and politics during this period, and in this study, Alison Conway relates courtesan narrative to cultural and religious anxieties. In new readings of canonical works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Richardson, Conway argues that authors engaged the same questions about identity, nation, authority, literature, and politics as those pursued by Restoration polemicists. Her study reveals the recurring connection between sexual impropriety and religious heterodoxy in Restoration thought, and Nell Gwyn, writ large as the nation's Protestant Whore, is shown to be a significant figure of sexual, political, and religious controversy.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

77.89 €

Full title: Protestant Whore
Subtitle: Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750
Author: Alison Conway
Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 304
EAN: 9781442641372
ISBN: 1442641371
ID: 04797490
Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
Weight: 600 g
Dimensions: 236 × 159 × 27 mm
Date of publishing: 20. March 2010