LEADER 04790nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910789524203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21404-0 010 $a9786613214041 010 $a1-61149-061-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000106212 035 $a(EBL)741759 035 $a(OCoLC)745865850 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542354 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12270146 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542354 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10510869 035 $a(PQKB)11651572 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC741759 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL741759 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10490771 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321404 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000106212 100 $a20110513d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVictorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's court$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican encounters with Victoria and Albert /$fStanley Weintraub 210 $aNewark $cUniversity of Delaware Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61149-060-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Preface; Ch01. Republican Yankees; Ch02. Coronation and After; Ch03. Victoria and Albert; Ch04. Yankee Doodle Comes to Town; Ch05. Seeing the Queen; Ch06. Before the Deluge; Ch07. Civil War at Home; Ch08. An End to Seclusion; Ch09. Guest Tales; Ch10. "Grandmother England"; Ch11. Command Performances; Ch12. Jubilee Encore; Ch13. Last Encounters; Afterword. Caisson for a Queen; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources; Index; About the Author 330 $a"Little seems to have changed since Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the Moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little interested in the sons and daughters of their last king, George III, developed a love-hate relationship with Queen Victoria, his granddaughter, that lasted all her sixty-four years on the throne, ending only with her death in the first weeks of the 20th century"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Little seems to have changed since Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic; yet for the first generations. liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the Moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little interested in the sons and daughters of their last king, George III, developed a love-hate relationship with Queen Victoria, his granddaughter, that lasted all her sixty-four years on the throne, ending only with her death in the first weeks of the last century. Victoria's long reign encompassed much of the time in which the young United States was growing up. The responses of Americans toward Victoria reveal not only what they thought of her (and her husband) as people and as monarchs, but reflect their own ambitions, confidence, smugness, insecurities - and sense of loss. Parting from England brought a surge of pride, but it also carried with it an unanticipated price. American encounters with Victoria as person and as symbol evoke the costs of relinquishing a history, a tradition, a ceremonial texture. A professedly egalitarian society found itself instantly without some of the familiar associations it valued, and Americans recognized the deficiency. Often, as a matter of pride, they left that realization unspoken. Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court is, then, a selective lens into nineteenth-century America -- an offbeat way to look at a people and a nation possessed with unruly energy and burgeoning into a wary greatness"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aNational characteristics, American$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAmericans$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zUnited States 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign public opinion, American$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aNational characteristics, American$xHistory 615 0$aPublic opinion$xHistory 615 0$aAmericans$xHistory 676 $a327.41073 686 $aHIS036000$2bisacsh 700 $aWeintraub$b Stanley$f1929-$0167775 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789524203321 996 $aVictorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's court$93677062 997 $aUNINA