Realms of Royalty : : New Directions in Researching Contemporary European Monarchies /

Realms of Royalty : : New Directions in Researching Contemporary European Monarchies / / ed. by Imke Polland, Christina Jordan.

Monarchies are constantly adapting to the challenges of contemporary society - consequently, research on monarchies has to adapt as well. This collection introduces new directions in researching contemporary European monarchies by suggesting theoretical approaches to recent developments (e.g., pop c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
MitwirkendeR:
Aldrich, Robert,
Gilfedder, Deirdre,
Jordan, Christina,
Kirbach, Eva,
Maclaran, Pauline,
McCreery, Cindy,
Menzel, Marie,
Otnes, Cele C.,
Polland, Imke,
Riotte, Torsten,
Scholz, Susanne,
Stickel, Marie-Theres,
Trajković Filipović, Stefan,
Veith, Natalie,
HerausgeberIn:
Jordan, Christina,
Polland, Imke,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 52
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Mapping New Realms in the Study of Contemporary European Monarchies
  • Royal Public Interactions and Trans/National Relations (19th-21st Century)
  • “We’ll Never be Royals” – or Will We? Exploring Meghan Markle’s Impact on the British Royal Family Brand
  • Your Media Majesty: Three Kings and Radio in the Inter-War Years
  • European Royals and their Colonial Realms: Honors and Decorations
  • Between Politics and Dynastic Survival: 19th-Century Monarchy in Post-Revolutionary Europe (1815-1918)
  • Monarchy on Page, Stage, and Screen
  • Who’s Queen? Elizabeth I in Contemporary Culture
  • “Empires of all kinds collapse, but the fake tsars, they last forever.” Modern and Contemporary Memories of Tsar Šćepan Mali (1767-1773)
  • Long May He (Not) Reign? Literary Depictions of a ‘Meddling’ Future Monarch. Prince Charles in Mike Bartlett’s Play King Charles III (2014) and in Catherine Mayer’s Biography Charles: The Heart of a King (2015)
  • Gendered Strategies of Power: Queen Elizabeth II as a Politician in the Plays The Audience (2015 [2013]) and Handbagged (2013)
  • Royal Representations in Contemporary Popular Cultural Contexts
  • The (In)Significance of Queen Victoria in Neo-Victorian Comics
  • Monarchy and the Alien: Three Queens as Sites of Memory in Doctor Who
  • ‘Party at the Palace’: Popular Cultural Celebrations in the Context of Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee
  • Afterword
  • Afterword: The British Monarchy and Brexit
  • Authors

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