| Physical description |
xiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 10. |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 10.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-274) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich -- 2. Nation and nationality: Queen Victoria in the developing narrative of Englishness / Elizabeth Langland -- 3. Crossing the Atlantic with Victoria: American receptions, 1837-1901 / Mary Loeffelholz -- 4. Illustrious company: Victoria among other women in Anglo-American role model anthologies / Alison Booth -- 5. Gloriana Victoriana: Victoria and the cultural memory of Elizabeth I / Nicola J. Watson -- 6. "Be no more housewives, but Queens": Queen Victoria and Ruskin's domestic mythology / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman -- 7. How we lost the empire: retelling the stories of the Rani of Jhansi and Queen Victoria / Maria Jerinic -- 8. "I know what is due to me": self-fashioning and legitimization in Queen Liliuokalani's Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen / Robin L. Bott -- 9. Reading and writing Victoria: the conduct book and the legal constitution of female sovereignty / Gail Turley Houston. |
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10. The wise child and her "offspring": some changing faces of Queen Victoria / Susan P. Casteras -- 11. "I never saw a man so frightened": the young queen and the parliamentary bedchamber / Karen Chase and Michael Levenson -- 12. The "Widdy's" empire: Queen Victoria as widow in Kipling's soldier stories and in the Barrack-Room Ballads / Dagni Bredesen -- 13. Queen Victoria in the Funnyhouse: Adrienne Kennedy and the rituals of colonial possession / Janet Winston. |
| Other author |
Homans, Margaret, 1952-
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Munich, Adrienne.
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| Subject |
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
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Queens -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography.
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Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography.
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Women.
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Womyn.
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Historiography.
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| ISBN |
0521574854 (paperback) |
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0521573793 (hardcover) |
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