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The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn

Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen

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Authors:
  1. Stephanie Russo

    1. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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  • Explores shifting representations of Anne Boleyn from the sixteenth century through to the present day
  • Surveys literature, drama, television and film
  • Illustrates how Anne Boleyn's life and body have functioned as sites for the projection of competing ideologies

Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The It Girl of Tudor England

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 1-19

  3. Anne Boleyn in the Sixteenth Century

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 21-48

  4. Anne Boleyn in the Seventeenth Century

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 49-69

  5. Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 71-99

  6. Anne Boleyn in Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 101-129

  7. Anne Boleyn on the Nineteenth-Century Stage

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 131-151

  8. Anne Boleyn from 1900 to 1950

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 153-180

  9. Anne Boleyn from 1950 to 2000

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 181-208

  10. Anne Boleyn in Twenty-First-Century Historical Fiction

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 209-237

  11. Anne Boleyn in Twenty-First-Century Transgeneric Fiction

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 239-266

  12. Anne Boleyn in Film and Television

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 267-291

  13. Conclusion

    • Stephanie Russo
    Pages 293-295

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 297-320
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About this book

This book explores 500 years of poetry, drama, novels, television and films about Anne Boleyn. Hundreds of writers across the centuries have been drawn to reimagine the story of her rise and fall. The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn tells the story of centuries of these shifting and often contradictory ways of understanding the narrative of Henry VIII’s most infamous queen. Since her execution on 19 May 1536, Anne’s life and body has been a site upon which competing religious, political and sexual ideologies have been inscribed; a practice that continues to this day. From the poetry of Thomas Wyatt to the songs of the hit pop musical Six, The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn takes as its central contention the belief that the mythology that surrounds Anne Boleyn is as interesting, revealing, and surprising as the woman herself. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Stephanie Russo

About the author

Stephanie Russo is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Macquarie University, Australia. She has published widely on women’s writing of the early modern period, as well as historical fiction.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn

  • Book Subtitle: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen

  • Authors: Stephanie Russo

  • Series Title: Queenship and Power

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58613-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58612-6Published: 29 October 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58615-7Published: 29 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58613-3Published: 28 October 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2730-938X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 320

  • Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Cultural History, Literary History, Gender Studies

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