TY - JOUR
T1 - At the border of life and death
T2 - the ghost of Anne Boleyn
AU - Russo, Stephanie
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Encounters with the ghost of Anne Boleyn are one of the strangest, yet persistent, aspects of her literary afterlife, as well as the folklore associated with her memory. Writers have continually imagined (or believed) the enticing prospect of being able to directly question the executed queen about the circumstances of her life and death. What unites all these accounts of a post-mortem Boleyn is their conviction that the past can be made to signify in the present: That historical figures of the early modern world can be made to explain themselves and provide an interpretive lens for understanding historical events.
AB - Encounters with the ghost of Anne Boleyn are one of the strangest, yet persistent, aspects of her literary afterlife, as well as the folklore associated with her memory. Writers have continually imagined (or believed) the enticing prospect of being able to directly question the executed queen about the circumstances of her life and death. What unites all these accounts of a post-mortem Boleyn is their conviction that the past can be made to signify in the present: That historical figures of the early modern world can be made to explain themselves and provide an interpretive lens for understanding historical events.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099118120&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/pgn.2020.0066
DO - 10.1353/pgn.2020.0066
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099118120
VL - 37
SP - 125
EP - 149
JO - Parergon: journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
JF - Parergon: journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
SN - 0313-6221
IS - 2
ER -