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Realms of Royalty

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This collection introduces new directions in researching contemporary European monarchies by suggesting theoretical approaches to recent developments and new perspectives on royal families' interac...
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Monarchies are facing public demands for modernization and adapting to changing societal, political, and media environments. This book proposes new directions in the research of contemporary European monarchies and offers innovative perspectives on trans/national royal public interactions and (semi-)fictional representations of monarchs. Its case studies address historic and recent developments, including newly invented royal traditions, media depictions, Meghan Markle's impact on the image of the British monarchy, and the royal family's role in Brexit negotiations. With its interdisciplinary analyses, the book reflects current academic, societal, and popular cultural interest in royalty.
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Pages: 270
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 21 July 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837645835
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
»Für alle, die vor allem an der britischen Monarchie interessiert sind, ist dieser Band eine wahre Fundgrube.«

Christina Jordan, an M.A. in English and German Studies as well as Cultural Anthropology from Goethe University Frankfurt. Her dissertation project analyzes Queen Elizabeth II's Golden and Diamond Jubilee as staged media events. She taught Literature and Culture at the Department of English at Justus Liebig University Giessen, coordinated an international PhD program, and has published on the intersection of monarchy, media and memory as well as on contemporary artistic depictions of the British monarchy.
Imke Polland, born in 1988, is research assistant responsible for internationalization at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany and coordinator of the European PhD Network "Literary and Cultural Studies". She currently works on her doctoral thesis entitled "'For Better, For Worse?' Royal Heirs Between Continuity and Change in Media Representations of British Royal Weddings (2005 and 2011)". Her research interests include royal studies, media events, cultural narratology and Brexit Literature as well as new formalist approaches in literary studies.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface and Acknowledgements 7
Introduction: Mapping New Realms in the Study of Contemporary European Monarchies 9
"We'll Never be Royals" - or Will We? Exploring Meghan Markle's Impact on the British Royal Family Brand 29
Your Media Majesty: Three Kings and Radio in the Inter-War Years 47
European Royals and their Colonial Realms: Honors and Decorations 63
Between Politics and Dynastic Survival: 19th-Century Monarchy in Post-Revolutionary Europe (1815-1918) 89
Who's Queen? Elizabeth I in Contemporary Culture 107
"Empires of all kinds collapse, but the fake tsars, they last forever." Modern and Contemporary Memories of Tsar Sepan Mali (1767-1773) 129
Long May He (Not) Reign? Literary Depictions of a 'Meddling' Future Monarch. Prince Charles in Mike Bartlett's Play King Charles III (2014) and in Catherine Mayer's Biography Charles: The Heart of a King (2015) 149
Gendered Strategies of Power: Queen Elizabeth II as a Politician in the Plays The Audience (2015 [2013]) and Handbagged (2013) 169
The (In)Significance of Queen Victoria in Neo-Victorian Comics 193
Monarchy and the Alien: Three Queens as Sites of Memory in Doctor Who 211
'Party at the Palace': Popular Cultural Celebrations in the Context of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden and Diamond Jubilee 233
Afterword: The British Monarchy and Brexit 253
Authors 265