Remaking Queen Victoria

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List of illustrations Notes on contributors 1. Introduction Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich Part I. Nation-Making: 2. Nation and nationality: Queen Victoria in the developing narrative of Englishness Elizabeth Langland 3. Crossing the Atlantic with Victoria: American receptions, 1837-1901 Mary Loeffelholz Part II. Queen Victoria and Other Queens: 4. Illustrious company: Victoria among other women in Anglo-American role model anthologies Alison Booth 5. Gloriana Victoriana: Victoria and the cultural memory of Elizabeth I Nicola J. Watson 6. 'Be no more housewives, but queens': Queen Victoria and Ruskin's domestic mythology Sharon Aronofsky Weltman 7. How we lost the empire: retelling the stories of the Rani of Jansi and Queen Victoria Maria Jerinic 8. 'I know what is due to me': self-fashioning and legitimization in Queen Liliuokalani's Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen Robin Bott Part III. Victoria's Career, Early and Late: 9. Reading and writing Victoria: the conduct book and the legal constitution of female sovereignty Gail Turley Houston 10. The wise child and her 'offspring': some changing faces of Queen Victoria Susan P. Casteras '11. I never saw a man so frightened': the young queen and the Parliamentary bedchamber Karen Chase and Michael Levenson 12. The 'Widdy's' empire: Queen Victoria as widow in Kipling's soldier stories and in the Barrack-Room Ballads Dagni Bredeson Part IV. Afterlife: 13. Queen Victoria in the Funnyhouse: Adrienne Kennedy and the rituals of colonial possession Janet Winston Bibliography Index.

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