The Elizabeth Icon: 1603–2003

Walker, J.

Surveying four-hundred years of British history, Walker examines how the memory - the icon - of Queen Elizabeth has been used as a marker for Englishness in disputes political and social, in art, literature and popular culture. From her second Westminster tomb to the pseudo-secret histories of the Restoration, from Georgian ballads to Victorian paintings, biographies, children's books, Suffragette banners, novels and films, trends in scholarship and rubber bath ducks, the icon becomes more powerful as the idea of Englishness becomes more arbitrary.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2003-11-25

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349510894

DOI: 10.1057/9780230288836

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 232