Royal Representations : Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876 / / Margaret Homans

• Autore: Homans Margaret
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [1999]; ©1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxvii, 283 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 941.081
• Soggetto topico: Monarchy - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Queens - Great Britain; Queens in literature; Queens in art
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Civilization 19th century; Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901
• Soggetto non controllato: queen victoria, victorian england, literature, art, agency, representation, women, gender, power, sovereignty, death, widow, monarchy, self, marriage, wife, head of state, elizabeth barrett browning, george eliot, john ruskin, margaret oliphant, lewis carroll, alfred lord tennyson, julia cameron, poetry, painting, mother, courtship, motherhood, maternity, obedience, privacy, spectacle, photography, domesticity, reform bill, albert memorials, grief, empire, idylls the king, alice in wonderland, loss, miss marjoribanks, queens gardens
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Queen s Agency -- 1. QUEEN VICTORIA'S SOVEREIGN OBEDIENCE -- 2. QUEEN VICTORIA'S WIDOWHOOD AND THE MAKING OF VICTORIAN QUEENS -- 3. THE WIDOW AS AUTHOR AND THE ARTS AND POWERS OF CONCEALMENT -- 4. QUEEN VICTORIA'S MEMORIAL ARTS -- Epilogue: Empire of Grief -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 helped to ease the monarchy's transition to an entirely symbolic role, and how Victoria's literary self-representations influenced debates over political self-representation. Homans considers versions of Victoria in the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Margaret Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Julia Margaret Cameron.
• Titolo autorizzato: Royal Representations
• ISBN: 1-336-20446-X; 0-226-35115-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248210403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Women in culture and society.