The Castrato and His Wife
The tale of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, 18th century castrato, celebrity, and heart-throb, and his elopement and love affair with his teenage pupil Doroethea Maunsell, a story that opens up a new history of attitudes towards sex and celebrity in Georgian Britain, and explores questions about the meaning of marriage that resonate in our own time.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-965526-7
- EAN: 9780199655267
- Produktnummer: 13133174
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.6 cm 366 g
- Abbildungen: 8pp black and white plates
- Gewicht: 366
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Helen Berry is Reader in Early Modern History at Newcastle University. She is the author of numerous articles on the history of eighteenth-century Britain, and is the co-editor (with Elizabeth Foyster) of The Family in Early Modern England (2007). This is her second book.
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