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Book SynopsisExamining Queen Victoria's own contributions to Victorian writing and art, this text looks at the cultural mechanisms through which her influence was felt. It explores the variability of Victoria's agency and of its representations using a wide array of literary, historical and visual sources.
Table of ContentsFigures Forward, by Catharine R. Stimpson Introduction: The Queen's Agency 1. Queen Victoria's Sovereign Obedience "The Queen Has No Equal": The Problem of a Female Monarchy Privacy on Display: The Queen as Wife and Mother The Queenly Courtship of Elizabeth Barrett Photographic Realism's Abject Queens 2. Queen Victoria's Widowhood and the Making of Victorian Queens The Invisible Queen Domestic Queens: Miss Marjoribanks Making Queens: "Of Queens' Gardens" and the Alice Books 3. The Widow as Author and the Arts and Powers of Concealment Bagehot's The English Constitution The Queen's Books: The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort The Queen's Books: Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands The Reform Bill and the Queen's Footnotes 4. Queen Victoria's Memorial Arts Albert Memorials Tennyson's Idylls of the King as an Albert Memorial Cameron's Photographic Idylls: Allegorical Realism and Memorial Art Epilogue: Empire of Grief Notes Index
