The Creation of Anne Boleyn

<p>"Bordo's sharp reading of Boleyniana and her clear affection for this proud unusual woman make this an entertaining provocative read."--<em>Boston Globe</em></p><p>Part biography part cultural history <em>The Creation of Anne Boleyn</em> is a reconstruction of Boleyn's life and an illuminating look at her very active afterlife in the popular imagination. With recent novels movies and television shows Anne has been having a twenty-first-century moment but Bordo shows how many generations of polemicists biographers novelists and filmmakers have imagined and reimagined her: whore martyr cautionary tale proto-"mean girl" feminist icon and everything in between. Drawing on scholarship and razor-sharp analysis Bordo probes the complexities of one of history's most intriguing women teasing out what we actually know about Anne Boleyn and what we think we know about her.</p><p>"Riveting . . . Bordo's eloquent study not only recovers Anne Boleyn for our times but also demonstrates the ways in which legends grow out of the faintest wisps of historical fact." --<em>Book Page</em></p><p>"Engrossing . . . Ms. Bordo offers a fascinating discussion."--<em>New York Times</em></p>