JOSEPHINE: THE ROSE OF MARTINIQUE

Book ID/图书代码： 03635020C00002

English Summary/英文概要： One of the most potent icons of female sexuality, Josephine has largely been reduced to an empty cipher, the butt of one of the oldest jokes around. Hitherto, her life has been portrayed almost entirely in connection with Napoleon, but that relationship, fascinating though it undoubtedly was, was only a tiny fraction of the life she led as a Caribbean women in the salons of eighteenth-century Paris. Andrea Stuart shares with her subject a Caribbean background and is able to offer a unique insight into the world which Josephine left as a plump schoolgirl for Paris and marriage to her cousin, Viscount Alexandre Beauharnais. Expecting an exotic Creole bride, Beaharnais set about a radical transformation and the dowdy teenager soon became a sophisticated sensual beauty, the darling of the pre-revolutionary salons. As the revolution reached its endgame, Josephine, now widowed with two small children, met her Emperor and the rest, as they say, is history. More eventful than the most lurid novel, no single life so embodies the vice and virtues, the tumult and dangers of the period through which she lived. By reconstructing Josephine’s life and world, Andrea Stuart brilliantly captures the extraordinary drama of the age and its unique atmosphere and social significance.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作为女性性感最有力的标志之一，约瑟芬在很大程度上已经沦落为一个空密码，成为了一个古老笑话的笑柄。迄今为止，她的生活被描述为几乎完全与拿破仑有关，但这种关系，尽管毫无疑问是迷人的，只是她生活的一小部分。安德烈亚•斯图尔特和她的主人公有着加勒比海的背景，并能够提供一个独特的视角来了解约瑟芬在巴黎上学时离开的世界，并嫁给了她的表兄亚历山大•博阿内斯子爵。期待一个异国情调的克里奥尔新娘，博哈奈开始了一个激进的转变和邋遢的少年很快成为一个成熟的感官美的形象。随着革命的结束，约瑟芬，现在寡母，有两个小孩，见到了她的皇帝，剩下的，正如他们所说，都是历史了。没有一个人的生活能如此体现她所经历的那个时代的美德与罪恶、动荡与危险，比最耸人听闻的小说更跌宕起伏。通过重建约瑟芬的生活和世界，安德烈亚•斯图尔特出色地捕捉了这个时代的非凡戏剧和它的独特氛围以及社会意义。（WYL)

Awards/获奖情况：“充满欢乐！”——凯瑟琳•休斯，《星期日邮报》

‘Delightful’ Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday

About the Author/作者介绍： 安德烈亚•斯图尔特在加勒比海和美国长大。她曾住在巴黎，现在住在伦敦。她写了两本广受好评的传记，一本是关于约瑟芬•贝克的《舞女》，1996年由乔纳森•凯普出版;另一本是《约瑟芬:马提尼克岛的玫瑰》，2003年由麦克米伦出版社出版。她是《黑人电影公报》的联合编辑和《评论季刊》的小说编辑。

Andrea Stuart was brought up in the Caribbean and the US. She has lived in Paris and now lives in London. She is the author of two acclaimed biographies, Showgirls, about Josephine Baker, published by Jonathan Cape in 1996 and Josephine: The Rose of Martinique, a biography of the Empress Josephine, published by Macmillan in 2003. She is co-editor of the Black Film Bulletin and Fiction Editor of Critical Quarterly.

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