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Remembering queens and kings of early modern England and France : reputation, reinterpretation, and reincarnation / Estelle Paranque, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Queenship and power
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Queens--England.
- Queens.
- Queens--France.
- Collective memory.
- History.
- Historiography.
- Kings and rulers.
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Historiography.
- Great Britain.
- France--Kings and rulers--Historiography.
- France.
- Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603--Historiography.
- Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714--Historiography.
- France--History--House of Valois, 1328-1589--Historiography.
- France--History--Bourbons, 1589-1789--Historiography.
- Collective memory--England.
- Collective memory--France.
- Kings and rulers--Historiography.
- England.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 331 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how queens and kings were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Remembering, forgetting, and the power of memory / Estelle Paranque
- Part I. Reputation in premodern literature. Boudicca and Elizabeth rally their troops: "Two queens both alike in dignity / Carole Levin ; Princess, Duchess, Queen: Mary Tudor as represented in a seventeenth-century French love story / Valerie Schutte ; Virtue betray'd: women writing Anne Boleyn in the long eighteenth century / Stephanie Russo ; "Of hopes great as Himselfe": Tudor and Stuart legacies of Edward VI / Benjamin M Guyer ; Chivalry, nobility, and romance: Richard Hurd and the ideal Elizabethan past / Jurriaan van Santvoort
- Part II. Reinterpretation in art. Charles IX of France or the anti-King: his legacy in plays and chronicles in seventeenth- and long eighteenth-century France / Estelle Paranque ; Remembering
- and forgetting
- regicide: the commemoration of the 30th of January, 1649-1660 / Imogen Peck ; Henrietta Maria, "Queen of Tears"?: Picturing and performing the Cavalier Queen / Sarah Betts ; Romantic recreations: remembering Stuart monarchy in nineteenth-century fancy dress entertainments / Benjamin L. Wild
- Part III. Reincarnation in popular culture. She-wolf or feminist heroine? Representations of Margaret of Anjou in modern history and literature / Imogene Dudley ; Reincarnating the forgotten Francis II: from puerile pubescent to heroic heartthrob / Kelly D. Peebles ; Daenerys Targaryen as Queen Elizabeth I's spiritual daughter / Estelle Paranque ; 50 shades of Elizabeth; or, "Doing history" in pop fiction / Elizabeth Ann Mackay ; Conniving queen, frivolous wife, or romantic heroine? The afterflife of Queen Henrietta Maria / Susan Dunn-Hensley ; "Let them eat cake, she says": assessing Marie-Antoinette's image / Courtney Herber.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9783030223434
- 3030223434
- OCLC:
- 1101259892
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