Royal Representations

Download or read book Royal Representations written by Margaret Homans and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FiguresForward, by Catharine R. StimpsonIntroduction: The Queen's Agency1. Queen Victoria's Sovereign Obedience"The Queen Has No Equal": The Problem of a Female MonarchyPrivacy on Display: The Queen as Wife and MotherThe Queenly Courtship of Elizabeth BarrettPhotographic Realism's Abject Queens2. Queen Victoria's Widowhood and the Making of Victorian QueensThe Invisible QueenDomestic Queens: Miss MarjoribanksMaking Queens: "Of Queens' Gardens" and the Alice Books3. The Widow as Author and the Arts and Powers of ConcealmentBagehot's The English ConstitutionThe Queen's Books: The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince ConsortThe Queen's Books: Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the HighlandsThe Reform Bill and the Queen's Footnotes4. Queen Victoria's Memorial ArtsAlbert MemorialsTennyson's Idylls of the King as an Albert MemorialCameron's Photographic Idylls: Allegorical Realism and Memorial ArtEpilogue: Empire of GriefNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art written by Melinda K. Hartwig and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories that shape the discipline of ancient Egyptian art. • Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities & Social Sciences • Features contributions from top scholars in their respective fields of expertise relating to ancient Egyptian art • Provides overviews of past and present scholarship and suggests new avenues to stimulate debate and allow for critical readings of individual art works • Explores themes and topics such as methodological approaches, transmission of Egyptian art and its connections with other cultures, ancient reception, technology and interpretation, • Provides a comprehensive synthesis on a discipline that has diversified to the extent that it now incorporates subjects ranging from gender theory to ‘X-ray fluorescence’ and ‘image-based interpretations systems’

Download or read book Representing Royalty written by Julia Kinzler and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early days of cinema, filmmakers have been intrigued by the lives and loves of British monarchs. The most recent productions by ITV and Netflix show that the fascination with British royalty continues unabated both in Britain and around the world. This book examines strategies of representing power and the staging of myths of power in seven popular films about British monarchs that were made after the mid-1990s revival of the “royal biopic” genre. By combining approaches from cultural studies with concepts and theories from the humanities, such as film studies and art history, it offers a comprehensive understanding of the cinematic portraits of royalty. In addition, the volume opens up new perspectives on how meaning is generated in films about the monarchy and on the connections between the biographical narratives. The introductory chapter to the case studies reviews the different academic positions on representations of royalty, provides a toolkit for studying the subject and demonstrates ways to approach the films. The book addresses questions of historical context and goes beyond a mere exploration of historical accuracy to reveal the films’ underlying ideological aims. As such, it makes a distinctive new contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the British monarchy in general and its cinematic representations in particular. It is the first monograph about representational mechanisms of royal identities and British past(s) in royal films such as Elizabeth, The Queen and The King’s Speech.

Download or read book Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles written by Kate Buchanan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What use is it to be given authority over men and lands if others do not know about it? Furthermore, what use is that authority if those who know about it do not respect it or recognise its jurisdiction? And what strategies and 'language' -written and spoken, visual and auditory, material, cultural and political - did those in authority throughout the medieval and early modern era use to project and make known their power? These questions have been crucial since regulations for governance entered society and are found at the core of this volume. In order to address these issues from an historical perspective, this collection of essays considers representations of authority made by a cross-section of society within the British Isles. Arranged in thematic sections, the 14 essays in the collection bridge the divide between medieval and early modern to build up understanding of the developments and continuities that can be followed across the centuries in question. Whether crown or noble, government or church, burgh or merchant; all desired power and influence, but their means of representing authority were very different. These essays encompass a myriad of methods demonstrating power and disseminating the image of authority, including: material culture, art, literature, architecture and landscapes, saintly cults, speeches and propaganda, martial posturing and strategic alliances, music, liturgy and ceremonial display. Thus, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates the variable forms in which authority was presented by key individuals and institutions in Scotland and the British Isles. By placing these within the context of the European powers with whom they interacted, this volume also underlines the unique relationships developed between the people and those who exercised authority over them.

Download or read book Passing Judgment written by Hélène E. Bilis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Passing Judgment, Helene Bilis examines how an overlooked character-type--the royal judge--remained a constant of the tragic genre throughout the 17th century.

Download or read book Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918 written by Robert A. Kann and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918

Download or read book Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey written by Chunmei Du and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for his ultraconservatism and eccentricity, Gu Hongming (1857-1928) remains one of the most controversial figures in modern Chinese intellectual history. A former member of the colonial elite from Penang who was educated in Europe, Gu, in his late twenties, became a Qing loyalist and Confucian spokesman who also defended concubinage, footbinding, and the queue. Seen as a reactionary by his Chinese contemporaries, Gu nevertheless gained fame as an Eastern prophet following the carnage of World War I, often paired with Rabindranath Tagore and Leo Tolstoy by Western and Japanese intellectuals. Rather than resort to the typical conception of Gu as an inscrutable eccentric, Chunmei Du argues that Gu was a trickster-sage figure who fought modern Western civilization in a time dominated by industrial power, utilitarian values, and imperialist expansion. A shape-shifter, Gu was by turns a lampooning jester, defying modern political and economic systems and, at other times, an avenging cultural hero who denounced colonial ideologies with formidable intellect, symbolic performances, and calculated pranks. A cultural amphibian, Gu transformed from an "imitation Western man" to "a Chinaman again," and reinterpreted, performed, and embodied "authentic Chineseness" in a time when China itself was adopting the new identity of a modern nation-state. Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey is the first comprehensive study in English of Gu Hongming, both the private individual and the public cultural figure. It examines the controversial scholar's intellectual and psychological journeys across geographical, national, and cultural boundaries in new global contexts. In addition to complicating existing studies of Chinese conservatism and global discussions on civilization around the World War I era, the book sheds new light on the contested notion of authenticity within the Chinese diaspora and the psychological impact of colonialism.