Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte

Behrendt, S.

This book examines the widespread response in British artistic media to the death in childbirth in 1817 of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince Regent and heiress to the throne, showing how both in print materials like poetry and sermons and extra-literary artifacts like visual art, ceramics, metalwork, and textiles her life and death were invested with the qualities of myth even as her memorialists appropriated her experiences in the process of producing consumer commodities for an emerging mass audience.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1997-09-17

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333695807

DOI: 10.1057/9780230376328

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 268