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- catalog abstract "An unconventional figure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich argues in this fascinating work, the originality of the solid, dour icon that was Victoria lay, paradoxically, in her very ordinariness. The first book to fully investigate the influence of this icon of British history, Queen Victoria's Secrets demonstrates the firm grasp the queen held on the cultural. Imagination of her country, exploring how Victoria created and maintained her royal authority. Gracefully weaving together feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of the queen in the minds of her people. How did Victoria convincingly maintain her power for forty years after Prince Albert's death, never giving up her identity as a grieving widow? How did Victorian society's reverential. Treatment of their queen conflate with the monarch's plain, middle class public image? These are some of the secrets Munich examines in her richly detailed work. In demonstrating the subtle but powerful ways in which Victoria performed significant cultural work, Queen Victoria's Secrets goes against the grain of Victoria scholarship, which has tended to overlook the queen's political and cultural centrality. This stylish, accessible portrait will be of great interest to. Those who are fascinated by the myth-making and secrets of the Victorian age.".
- catalog contributor b9098478.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "1. Elements of Power -- 2. Genealogies in Her Closet -- 3. Dressing the Body Politic -- 4. Imperial Tears -- 5. Queen of a Certain Age -- 6. Domesticity; or, Her Life as a Dog -- 7. Petticoat Rule; or, Victoria in Furs -- 8. Motherhood, Excess, and Empire -- Epilogue: Victoria Amazonica.".
- catalog description "An unconventional figure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich argues in this fascinating work, the originality of the solid, dour icon that was Victoria lay, paradoxically, in her very ordinariness. The first book to fully investigate the influence of this icon of British history, Queen Victoria's Secrets demonstrates the firm grasp the queen held on the cultural.".
- catalog description "Imagination of her country, exploring how Victoria created and maintained her royal authority. Gracefully weaving together feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of the queen in the minds of her people. How did Victoria convincingly maintain her power for forty years after Prince Albert's death, never giving up her identity as a grieving widow? How did Victorian society's reverential.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index.".
- catalog description "Those who are fascinated by the myth-making and secrets of the Victorian age.".
- catalog description "Treatment of their queen conflate with the monarch's plain, middle class public image? These are some of the secrets Munich examines in her richly detailed work. In demonstrating the subtle but powerful ways in which Victoria performed significant cultural work, Queen Victoria's Secrets goes against the grain of Victoria scholarship, which has tended to overlook the queen's political and cultural centrality. This stylish, accessible portrait will be of great interest to.".
- catalog extent "xx, 254 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231104804 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "941.081 20".
- catalog subject "DA554 .M86 1996".
- catalog subject "Queens Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.".
- catalog subject "Women Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Elements of Power -- 2. Genealogies in Her Closet -- 3. Dressing the Body Politic -- 4. Imperial Tears -- 5. Queen of a Certain Age -- 6. Domesticity; or, Her Life as a Dog -- 7. Petticoat Rule; or, Victoria in Furs -- 8. Motherhood, Excess, and Empire -- Epilogue: Victoria Amazonica.".
- catalog title "Queen Victoria's secrets / Adrienne Munich.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".