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The body of the queen: gender and rule in the courtly world, 1500-2000
Regina Schulte, Pernille Arenfledt, Martin Kohlrausch and Xenia von Tippelskirch
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page vii)
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Foreword (page xi)
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List of Contributors (page xii)
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1. Introduction: Conceptual Approaches to the Queen's Body (Regina Schulte, page 1)
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Part I: Constructing the Body Politic
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2. How Two Ladies Steal a Crown: The Memoirs of Helene Kottannerin (1439-40) at the Court of Queen Elisabeth of Hungary (1409-42) (Horst Wenzel, page 19)
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3. Elizabeth When a Princess: Early Self-representations in a Portrait and a Letter (Susan Frye, page 43)
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4. Elizabeth through the Looking Glass: Picturing the Queen's Two Bodies (Louis Montrose, page 61)
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5. Royal Flesh, Gender and the Construction of Monarchy (Rachel Weil, page 88)
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Part II: Transgressing the Body Natural
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6. What the King Saw in the Belly of the Beast or How the Lion Got in the Queen: Allegories of Royal Procreation in the 1622 Royal Entry into Lyon (Abby E. Zanger, page 103)
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7. Posterity and the Body of the Princess in German Court Funeral Books (Jill Bepler, page 125)
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8. 'Madame, Ma Chère Fille' - 'Dearest Child': Letters from Imperial Mothers to Royal Daughters (Regina Schulte, page 156)
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Part III: Queens of Modernity
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9. Queen Margherita (1851-1926): 'The Only Man in the House of Savoy' (Catherine Brice, page 195)
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10. The Double Skin: Imperial Fashion in the Nineteenth Century (Juliane Vogel, page 216)
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11. Theatrical Monarchy: The Making of Victoria, the Modern Family Queen (Bernd Weisbrod, page 238)
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12. The Unmanly Emperor: Wilhelm II and the Fragility of the Royal Individual (Martin Kohlrausch, page 254)
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Part IV: Visual Metamorphoses
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13. The 'Berlin' Nefertiti Bust: Imperial Fantasies in Twentieth-Century German Archaeological Discourse (Claudia Breger, page 281)
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14. Imagined Queens between Heaven and Hell: Representations of Grace Kelly and Romy Schneider (Alexis Schwarzenbach, page 306)
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15. Queer Queen: Elizabeth I in Sally Potter's Film Orlando (Katharina Sykora, page 327)
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Bibliography (page 343)
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Index (page 359)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JWoH | 22.2 (Summer 2010): 181-190 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/382783 |
Citable Link
Published: 2006
Publisher: Berghahn Books
- 9781845451219 (hardcover)
- 9781782386278 (ebook)
- 9781845451592 (paper)