The Elizabeth icon, 1603-2003 / Julia M. Walker.
The Elizabeth icon, 1603-2003 / Julia M. Walker.
By
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Walker, Julia M., 1951-
Publication Date
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2004
Publication Information
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillian,
Physical Description
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232 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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National characteristics, British, in literature.
National characteristics, British -- History.
English literature -- History and criticism.
Queens in literature.
Queens in art.
Geographic Term
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Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Historiography.
Great Britain -- In art.
Summary
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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.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781403911995
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