The Elizabeth Icon, 1603-2003

2004
ISBN: 978-1-4039-1199-5
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Surveying four-hundred years of British history, Walker examines how the memory - the icon - of Queen Elizabeth has been used as a marker for Englishness in disputes political and social, in art, literature and popular culture. From her second Westminster tomb to the pseudo-secret histories of the Restoration, from Georgian ballads to Victorian paintings, biographies, children's books, Suffragette banners, novels and films, trends in scholarship and rubber bath ducks, the icon becomes more powerful as the idea of Englishness becomes more arbitrary.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1603-1660: The Shadow of the Rainbow 1660-1714: The Shadow of Divine Right 1714-1910: The Shadow of 'once upon a time.' 1910-1952: The Shadow of History 1952-2003: The Shadow of the Imagination Index

Über Autor(innen)

JULIA M. WALKER is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the State University of New York at Geneseo, and the editor of (1988), (1998), and the author of (1998). She received the Milton Society's Hanford Award for the Most Distinguished Milton Essay of 1997.