Historical Biography - Europe, Women's Biography, Women's Biography, French History

Marie-Antoinette

Name: Marie-Antoinette
Author: Dena Goodman
ISBN: 9780415933940

by Dena Goodman

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Overview

Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. This volume explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to put right Marie's identity, and it simultaneously links these struggles to larger destabilizations in social, political and gender systems in France.

Looking at how Marie-Antoinette was represented in politics, art, literature and journalism, the contributors to this volume reveal how crucial political and cultural contexts were enacted "on the body of the queen" and on her complex identity. Taken together, these essays suggest that it is precisely because she came to represent the contradictions in the social, political and gender systems of her era, that Marie-Antoinette remains such an important historical figure.

About the Author, Dena Goodman

Dena Goodman is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Her publications include The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (1994) and Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France, which she co-edited (1995).