The Elizabeth Icon: 1603-2003

by J. Walker

Surveying four-hundred years of British history, Walker examines how the memory - the icon - of Queen Elizabeth has been used as a marker for Englishness in disputes political and social, in art, literature and popular culture. From her second Westminster tomb to the pseudo-secret histories of the Restoration, from Georgian ballads to Victorian paintings, biographies, children's books, Suffragette banners, novels and films, trends in scholarship and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349510890
• ISBN13: 9781349510894
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"