Gender/politics and the beautiful parricide : Beatrice Cenci as a nineteenth-century icon /

This study interrogates the nineteenth century's sustained fascination with the figure of Beatrice Cenci, a late-Renaissance Italian noblewoman executed for the murder of her allegedly incestuous father. Beatrice's story reached Anglo-American audiences via Percy Shelley's 1819 Gothic...

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Main Author:	Sargent, Laura Jane
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 2000.
Subjects:	Major English.
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