替罪羊：白金汉公爵的辉煌短暂人生 The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

基本信息

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Collins Publishers

Imprint:Fourth Estate

ISBN:9780008126575

Published:10 Oct 2024

Dimensions:234 x 153 (mm)

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书籍简介

本书由 Baillie Gifford 奖得主撰写，讲述了白金汉公爵乔治·维利尔斯 (George Villiers)的飞速崛起和衰落。

“白金汉公爵在这本史诗般辉煌、细节诱人的传记中一飞冲天”OLIVIA LAING

作为詹姆斯一世国王的宠臣，白金汉公爵也是他的知己、守门人、得力助手和情人。当其继承了父亲的王位时，他同样被白金汉公爵迷住了，并把白金汉公爵当成了他的好朋友和导师。白金汉公爵是一位在马背上耀眼夺目的人物，也是一位政治游戏中的熟练玩家，他迅速将自己的美貌转化为巨大的财富和权力。他成为十七世纪王室和政治生活中华丽、神秘的英国人之一。

露西·休斯-哈利特以小说家的笔法将我们带入一个宫廷世界，那里有假面剧和舞蹈、精美的服装、鲁本斯和凡·戴克的艺术、性别流动性、欲望和极其简陋的医学。猎人与弗朗西斯·培根的经验主义并存，舆论正在成为一股政治力量。白金汉宫一落千丈，代表了这个国家所有的问题。

从绑架和谋杀阴谋到在议会为自由而哭泣的男子，《替罪羊》在一个即将发生剧变的社会中讲述了爱情、战争狂热和和平主义。在这部引人入胜、专业性强的叙述中，休斯-哈利特召唤了一个至今仍能引起共鸣的时代。

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.

'Lord Buckingham rockets off the page of this gloriously epic, seductively detailed biography' OLIVIA LAING

As King James I’s favourite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, right-hand man and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor. A dazzling figure on horseback and a skilful player of the political game, Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth-century royal and political life.

With a novelist’s touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Hunters coexisted with Francis Bacon’s empiricism and public opinion was becoming a political force. Falling from grace spectacularly, Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country.

From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties, The Scapegoat navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this immersive and authoritative account, Hughes-Hallett summons an era that still resonates today.

作者简介

露西·休斯-哈利特 (Lucy Hughes-Hallett) 是《长矛》 (The Pike) 的作者，这是一本关于加布里埃莱·邓南遮的传记，该书获得了塞缪尔·约翰逊非小说奖、科斯塔传记奖、达夫·库珀奖和帕迪·鲍尔年度政治传记奖。她的其他著作包括《埃及艳后：历史、梦想和扭曲》和《英雄：救世主、叛徒和超人》。露西·休斯-哈利特也是一位受人尊敬的评论家和皇家文学学会会员。她住在伦敦。

Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike, a biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction, the Costa Biography Award, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Paddy Power Political Biography of the Year Award. Her other books are Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions and Heroes. Lucy Hughes-Hallett is also a respected critic and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.