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The Protestant Whore - Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750 (Paperback)
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The Protestant Whore - Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750 (Paperback)
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After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants
worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for
Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly
influenced by his Catholic mistresses. Nell Gwyn, actress and royal
mistress, stood apart by virtue of her Protestant loyalty. In 1681,
Gwyn, her carriage surrounded by an angry anti-Catholic mob,
famously declared 'I am the protestant whore.' Her self-branding
invites an investigation into the alignment between sex and
politics during this period, and in this study, Alison Conway
relates courtesan narrative to cultural and religious anxieties. In
new readings of canonical works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Henry
Fielding, and Samuel Richardson, Conway argues that authors engaged
the same questions about identity, nation, authority, literature,
and politics as those pursued by Restoration polemicists. Her study
reveals the recurring connection between sexual impropriety and
religious heterodoxy in Restoration thought, and Nell Gwyn, writ
large as the nation's Protestant Whore, is shown to be a
significant figure of sexual, political, and religious controversy.
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