The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn

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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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. 

• Anne Boleyn
• Henry VIII
• Historical fiction of Anne Boleyn
• Elizabeth I
• Tudor dynasty
• Thomas Wyatt
• literary representations of Anne Boleyn
• Victorian representations of Anne Boleyn
• The Tudors
• fan studies theory
• Tudor history
• Women's political power
• Renaissance English
• Rennaissance history

• Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

  Stephanie Russo

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.

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