The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds
Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century
Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death. Not surprisingly, such sensational material has attracted the attention of enthusiasts, scholars and literateurs to 'the strange case of the chevalier d'Eon'. He has also attracted the attention of psychologists and sexologists, and for most of the last c…
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Weitere Autoren: Conlin, Jonathan (Hrsg.) / Goulbourne, Russell (Hrsg.) / Mainz, Valerie (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-7404-8
- EAN: 9781441174048
- Produktnummer: 13814726
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'677 KB
- Abbildungen: 30
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Jonathan Conlin is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Southampton, UK. Russell Golbourne is Professor of Early modern French literature at the University of Leeds.
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