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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Royal Representations
• Subtitle: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-76
• Author: Margaret Homans
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780226351131
• ID: 04545937
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 600 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 158 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 1999

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