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Bordo, Susan, 1947-

The creation of Anne Boleyn : a new look at England's most notorious queen / Susan Bordo.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2013.

xvii, 343 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Reconstructs the life of the second wife of Henry VIII, drawing on scholarly studies and critical analysis to define an English queen who has been alternately viewed as a whore, martyr, feminist icon, and cautionary tale.

Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536 -- Influence.

Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 -- Marriage.

Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The erasure of Anne Boleyn and the creation of "Anne Boleyn" -- Queen interrupted. Why you shouldn't believe everything you've heard about Anne Boleyn ; Why Anne? ; In love (or something like it) ; A perfect storm ; The tower and the scaffold ; Henry: How could he do it? -- Recipes for "Anne Boleyn". Basic historical ingredients ; Anne's afterlives, from she-tragedy to historical romance ; Postwar: domestic trouble in the house of Tudor -- An Anne for all seasons. It's the Anne that makes the movie: "Anne of the Thousand Days" ; The Tudors ; Chapuys' revenge ; Anne gets the last word (for now).

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