Royal representations : Queen Victoria and British culture, 1837-1876 / Margaret Homans.
- Homans, Margaret, 1952-
- Date:
- 1998
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Physical description
xxxvii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents
"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 -- The invisible queen -- Domestic queens: Miss Marjoribanks -- Making queens: "Of queens' gardens" and the Alice books -- 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 -- Albert memorials -- Tennyson's Idylls of the king as an Albert memorial -- Cameron's photographic Idylls: allegorical realism and memorial art.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-275) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.