England's Elizabeth An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy

Name: England's Elizabeth An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy
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ISBN: 9780198183778

ISBN-10: 0198183771

ISBN-13: 9780198183778

Edition: 2002

Authors: Michael Dobson, Nicola J. Watson

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No monarch is more glamorous or more controversial than Elizabeth I. The stories by which successive generations have sought to extol, explain, or excoriate Elizabeth supply a rich index to the cultural history of English nationalism - whether they represent her as Anne Boleyn's suffering orphan or as the implacable nemesis of Mary, Queen of Scots, as learned stateswoman or as frustrated lover, persecuted princess or triumphant warrior queen. This book examines the many afterlives the Virgin Queen has lived in drama, poetry, fiction, painting, propaganda, and the cinema over the four centuries since her death, from the aspiringly epic to the frankly kitsch. Exploring the Elizabeths of…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/28/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

MARY A. FAVRET teaches English and Women's Studies at Indiana University and is author of Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters. NICOLA J. WATSON teaches English at Northwestern University and is author of Revolution and the Form of the Novel 1790--1825: Intercepted Letters, Interrupted Seductions.



List of Plates


List of Figures


Introduction: The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen


Chronology



Gloriana Revives



The Private Lives of the Virgin Queen



Good Queen Bess and Merrie England



The Faery Queen and Victorian Values



An Empress and her Adventurers



Elizabeth Modernized


Afterword: Virginia in the New World


Notes


Acknowledgements


Index