A01=Margaret Homans
agency
albert memorials
alfred lord tennyson
alice in wonderland
art
Author_Margaret Homans
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courtship
death
domesticity
elizabeth barrett browning
empire
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gender
george eliot
grief
head of state
idylls the king
john ruskin
julia cameron
lewis carroll
literature
loss
margaret oliphant
marriage
maternity
miss marjoribanks
monarchy
mother
motherhood
obedience
painting
photography
poetry
power
privacy
queen victoria
queens gardens
reform bill
representation
self
sovereignty
spectacle
victorian england
widow
wife
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780226351131
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 1999
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Queen Victoria was one of the most complex cultural productions of her age. This text 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," the text explores the variability of Victoria's agency and of its representations using a wide array of literary, historical, and visual sources. It 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. Versions of Victoria are considered in the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Margaret Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Julia Margaret Cameron.
