| 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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| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-274) and index |
| Contents |
Introduction / Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich -- Nation and nationality: Queen Victoria in the developing narrative of Englishness / Elizabeth Langland -- Crossing the Atlantic with Victoria: American receptions, 1837-1901 / Mary Loeffelholz -- Illustrious company: Victoria among other women in Anglo-American role model anthologies / Alison Booth -- Gloriana Victoriana: Victoria and the cultural memory of Elizabeth I / Nicola J. Watson -- "Be no more housewives, but queens": Queen Victoria and Ruskin's domestic mythology / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman -- How we lost the empire: retelling the stories of the Rani of Jhansi and Queen Victoria / Maria Jerinic |
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"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 -- Reading and writing Victoria: the conduct book and the legal constitution of female sovereignty / Gail Turley Houston -- The wise child and her "offspring": some changing faces of Queen Victoria / Susan P. Casteras -- "I never saw a man so frightened": the young queen and the parliamentary bedchamber / Karen Chase and Michael Levenson -- The "widdy's" empire: Queen Victoria as widow in Kipling's soldier stories and in the Barrack-room ballads / Dagni Bredesen -- Queen Victoria in the Funnyhouse: Adrienne Kennedy and the rituals of colonial possession / Janet Winston |
| Summary |
Queen Victoria's central importance to the era defined by her reign is self-evidence, and yet it has been surprisingly overlooked in the study of Victorian culture. This collection of essays goes beyond the facts of biography and official history to explore the diverse and sometimes conflicting meanings she held for her subjects around the world and even for those outside her empire, who made of her a many-faceted icon serving their social and economic needs. In her paradoxical position as neither consort nor king, she baffled expectations throughout her reign. She was a model of wifely decorum and solid middle-class values, but she also became the focus of anxieties about powerful women, and - increasingly - of anger about Britain's imperial aims. Each essay analyzes a different aspect of this complex and fascinating figure. Contributors include noted scholars in the fields of literature, cultural studies, art history, and women's studies. -- from back cover |
| Note |
Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0. Uk |
| Subjects |
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Historiography
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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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| Alt Name |
Homans, Margaret, 1952- editor
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Munich, Adrienne, editor
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| LC NO |
DA550 .R46 1997 |
| Dewey No |
941.081/092 21 |
| OCLC # |
35970657 |
| ISBN |
0521573793 (hardcover) |
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9780521573795 (hardcover) |
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0521574854 (pbk.) |
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9780521574853 (pbk.) |
| Isn/Std # |
(OCoLC)35970657 (OCoLC)37864719 (OCoLC)1027280925 (OCoLC)1416530752 |
| LCCN |
96050285 |
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