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The Elizabeth Icon, 1603-2003

By Julia M. Walker

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2004
ISBN
1403911991, 9781403911995
LCC
DA355 .W335 2003
Open Library ID
OL22566940M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2684163 bytes)
Pages
245\245
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Библиотека;Жизнь выдающихся людей;Правителигосударственные и политические деятели;Деятели Анг

Description

Surveying four-hundred years of British history, Walker examines how the memory - the icon - of Queen Elizabeth has been used as a marker for Englishness in disputes political and social, in art, literature and popular culture. From her second Westminster tomb to the pseudo-secret histories of the Restoration, from Georgian ballads to Victorian paintings, biographies, children's books, Suffragette banners, novels and films, trends in scholarship and rubber bath ducks, the icon becomes more powerful as the idea of Englishness becomes more arbitrary.

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