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Royal Mourning & Regency Culture
Stephen C. Behrendt
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Description for Royal Mourning & Regency Culture
Hardcover. This text examines the widespread response in British artistic media to the death in childbirth in 1817 of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, showing how both in print materials and extra-literary artifacts her life and death were invested with the qualities of myth. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; ACV; DSB; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333695807
SKU
V9780333695807
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99-15
About Stephen C. Behrendt
STEPHEN C. BEHRENDT is George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, USA. Among his previous books are Reading William Blake, Shelley and His Audiences, and The Moment of Explosion: Black and the Illustration of Milton, as well as several edited collection of essays on Romantic literature and the other arts and two collections of poetry, Instruments ... Read more
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