The Elizabeth Icon, 1603-2003
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"This book deals strikingly with the importance of memory and how the different recollections of Elizabeth I open up new ways of understanding English politics and culture from the Seventeenth-century to our own. Walker examines numerous representations and writes in a conversational style that will be accessible to a wide-ranging audience." -- Carole Levin, Willa Cather Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"Julia Walker's The Elizabeth Icon is not just a scholarly tour de force - it is also critically innovative in its exploration of changing memorialisations of the Virgin Queen. Walker brings a new level of intellectual understanding and clarity to her analysis of a crucial yet neglected element within British historical self-consciousness: the changing reception and transmission of ideas of individual monarchs. In this compelling study, she shows how a series of cultural as well as historical contingencies have contributed to the changing definition of a key emblem, not simply of British monarchy, but also, more generally, of Britain itself.' - Phillipa Berry, Fellow and Director of Studies in English, King's College, Cambridge University
The Elizabeth Icon, 1603-2003,Julia M. Walker,Palgrave Macmillan,1403911991,1533-1603,Elizabeth,English literature,Europe - General,Europe - Great Britain - General,History,History - General History,History and criticism,History: World,I,,National characteristics, British,National characteristics, British, in literature,Public opinion,Queen of England,,Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject,Royalty,World - General,British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700,Literary Criticism & Collections / General,Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries,United Kingdom, Great Britain,Women's studies
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