Description
Book SynopsisThis collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels. With essays on well-known figures such as Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette as well as lesser-known monarchs such as Francis II of France and Mary Tudor, Queen of France,
Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France brings together reflections on how rulers live on in collective memory.
Trade Review“This artfully assembled collection will hopefully spur more research and critical thinking into how culture affects our relationships to the past outside of historiographies.” (Anastasia Utke, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 7 (2), 2020)
Table of Contents1. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Power of Memory
I. Reputation in Premodern Literature
2. Boudicca and Elizabeth Rally Their Troops: "Two Queens Both Alike in Dignity"
3. Princess, Duchess, Queen: Mary Tudor as Represented in a Seventeenth-Century French Love Story
4. Virtue Betray’d: Women Writing Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century
5. “Of Hopes Great as Himselfe:” Tudor and Stuart Legacies of Edward VI
6. Chivalry, Nobility and Romance: Richard Hurd and the Ideal Elizabethan Past
II. Reinterpretation in Art
7. Charles IX of France or the Anti-King: His Legacy in Plays and Chronicles in Seventeenth- and Long Eighteenth-Century France
8. Remembering—and Forgetting—Regicide: The Commemoration of the 30th January 1649–1660
9. Henrietta Maria, “Queen of Tears”? Picturing and Performing the Cavalier Queen
10. Romantic Recreations: Remembering Stuart Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Fancy Dress Entertainments
III. Reincarnation in Popular Culture
11. She-Wolf or Feminist Heroine? Representations of Margaret of Anjou in Modern History and Literature
12. Reincarnating the Forgotten Francis II: From Puerile Pubescent to Heroic Heartthrob
13. Daenerys Targaryen as Elizabeth I’s Spiritual Daughter
14. 50 Shades of Elizabeth or “Doing History” in Pop Fiction
15. Conniving Queen, Frivolous Wife, or Romantic Heroine? The Afterlife of Queen Henrietta Maria
16. ‘Let them eat cake, she says’: Assessing Marie-Antoinette’s Image
