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Royalties - The Queen and Victorian Writers (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,168
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Royalties - The Queen and Victorian Writers (Hardcover): Gail Turley Houston

Royalties - The Queen and Victorian Writers (Hardcover)

Gail Turley Houston

Series: Victorian Literature & Culture

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Queens, by definition, embody a historical contradiction between femininity and power. Queen Victoria, whose strength and longevity defined an age, possessed immense cultural as well as political power, even becoming a writer herself.

This cultural sovereignty, argues Gail Turley Houston, in the hands of a female monarch troubled writers, especially men, who worked during a reign that viewed women as domestic angels. By exploring a wide range of representations of the queen by significant Victorian writers, Houston points out the complexity of Victorian constructions of gender, representation, authority, and identity. She works to demystify such canonized authors as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Margaret Oliphant by examining the ways they encounter Victoria in their writings. The queen's feminine power seems to be at odds with the masculine profession of author, which was also coming to be viewed as a significant representative of the culture.

Part of the recent movement by feminist scholars to recuperate and analyze Queen Victoria's important meanings in nineteenth-century British culture, Royalties dissects the anomaly of the queen and her effect on dominant cultural attitudes about gender.

General

Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Victorian Literature & Culture
Release date: October 1999
First published: November 1999
Authors: Gail Turley Houston
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-1893-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN: 0-8139-1893-6
Barcode: 9780813918938

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