The Elizabeth Icon: 1603–2003
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The Elizabeth Icon: 1603–2003

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Elizabeth Icon: 1603–2003

About this book

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 rubber bath ducks, the icon becomes more powerful as the idea of Englishness becomes more arbitrary.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Elizabeth Icon: 1603–2003
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction: History of an Icon in the Public Space of Memory
  7. 1603–1620: The Shadow of the Rainbow
  8. 1620–1660: The Shadow of Divine Right
  9. 1660–1837: The Shadow of a Golden Age
  10. 1837–1910: The Shadow of a Paternalistic Queenship
  11. 1910–1953: The Shadow of History
  12. 1953–2003: The Shadows of Modern Imagination
  13. Conclusion: The Shadow of an Icon — the BBC’s Most-admired Britons
  14. Notes
  15. Index