Joan Of Arc Sacrificial Authorship [Paperback]

Joan of Arc is a popular historical figure, recreated and reinvented in many modern films, poems and in narrative prose. In this book Ann Astell asks why post-Enlightenment writers chose Joan of Arc as a subject and in what ways they, the authors, identified with her. Examples of the modern renditions of this medieval victim, martyr and scapegoat are found in the works of Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Coleridge and George Bernard Shaw for example, all of which are discussed here. The variations in the portrayals of Joan from work to work, often mirroring aspects of the author's life, are considered. Includes an excellent historical preface and introduction.Joan of Arc is a popular historical figure, recreated and reinvented in many modern films, poems and in narrative prose. In this book Ann Astell asks why post-Enlightenment writers chose Joan of Arc as a subject and in what ways they, the authors, identified with her.