Format:
XI, 264 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0521815738
Content:
"This is the first book to examine Elizabeth I's lasting impact on the Anglo-American historical imagination. John Watkins attributes her abiding popularity to her iconic role in seventeenth-century debates over the nature of sovereignty. Watkins focuses on England's most turbulent century because it witnessed the consolidation of enduring attitudes toward both the Tudor past and the English monarchy. He explains that seventeenth-century representations of Elizabeth intersected with the period's wider debate over the sovereign's relationship to the people. He then traces the development of Elizabeth's iconic significance as the century moves on; the stories of Princess Elizabeth's sufferings under Mary Tudor or of her secret longings for Essex eventually figured more prominently in the popular imagination than records of her relationship with Parliament. By the early eighteenth century Elizabeth had acquired a new value as a model of the tragic individual pitted against a hostile social order."--BOOK JACKET.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Elisabeth I. England, Königin 1533-1603
;
Elisabeth I. England, Königin 1533-1603
;
Monarchie
;
Geschichtsschreibung
;
Geschichte 1603-1714
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d0x4-aa
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c8z4-aa
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d0x4-aa
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam023/2002017401.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/2002017401.html
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c8z4-aa
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0731/2002017401-b.html
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