Royal Representations Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876

Name: Royal Representations Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876
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ISBN: 9780226351148

ISBN-10: 0226351149

ISBN-13: 9780226351148

Edition: 1998

Authors: Margaret Homans

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Queen Victoria was one of the most complex cultural productions of her age. In Royal Representations, Margaret Homans investigates the meanings Victoria held for her times, Victoria's own contributions to Victorian writing and art, and the cultural mechanisms through which her influence was felt. Arguing that being, seeming, and appearing were crucial to Victoria's "rule," Homans explores the variability of Victoria's agency and of its representations using a wide array of literary, historical, and visual sources. Along the way she shows how Victoria provided a deeply equivocal model for women's powers in and out of marriage, how Victoria's dramatic public withdrawal after Albert's death…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



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Introduction: The Queen's Agency



Queen Victoria's Sovereign Obedience


"The Queen Has No Equal": The Problem of a Female Monarchy


Privacy on Display: The Queen as Wife and Mother


The Queenly Courtship of Elizabeth Barrett


Photographic Realism's Abject Queens



Queen Victoria's Widowhood and the Making of Victorian Queens


The Invisible Queen


Domestic Queens: Miss Marjoribanks


Making Queens: "Of Queens' Gardens" and the Alice Books



The Widow as Author and the Arts and Powers of Concealment


Bagehot's The English Constitution


The Queen's Books: The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort


The Queen's Books: Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands


The Reform Bill and the Queen's Footnotes



Queen Victoria's Memorial Arts


Albert Memorials


Tennyson's Idylls of the King as an Albert Memorial


Cameron's Photographic Idylls: Allegorical Realism and Memorial Art


Epilogue: Empire of Grief


Notes


Index