Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France: Reputation, Reinterpretation, and Reincarnation

Book Overview

This 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030223434
• ISBN13: 9783030223434
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"