Realms of Royalty: New Directions in Researching Contemporary European Monarchies

Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Realms of Royalty

New Directions in Researching Contemporary European Monarchies

Edited by: Christina Jordan and Imke Polland

Volume 52 in the series Edition Kulturwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839445839

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

»Für alle, die vor allem an der britischen Monarchie interessiert sind, ist dieser Band eine wahre Fundgrube.«
Cathleen Sarti, www.sehepunkte.de, 20/12 (2020)

»Ein Werk, dass mit internationalen und interdisziplinär aufgestellten Wissenschaftler_innen aller Qualifikationsränge die berechtigte Frage nach der Monarchieforschung im zeithistorischen Kontext aufwirft und zwingend notwendige Pionierarbeit leistet.«
Catherine Ludwig-Ockenfels, KULT_online, 62 (2020)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface and Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction: Mapping New Realms in the Study of Contemporary European Monarchies Christina Jordan and Imke Polland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Royal Public Interactions and Trans/National Relations (19th-21st Century)
“We’ll Never be Royals” – or Will We? Exploring Meghan Markle’s Impact on the British Royal Family Brand Pauline Maclaran and Cele C. Otnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Your Media Majesty: Three Kings and Radio in the Inter-War Years Deirdre Gilfedder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
European Royals and their Colonial Realms: Honors and Decorations Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Between Politics and Dynastic Survival: 19th-Century Monarchy in Post-Revolutionary Europe (1815-1918) Torsten Riotte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Monarchy on Page, Stage, and Screen
Who’s Queen? Elizabeth I in Contemporary Culture Susanne Scholz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
“Empires of all kinds collapse, but the fake tsars, they last forever.” Modern and Contemporary Memories of Tsar Šćepan Mali (1767-1773) Stefan Trajković Filipović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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) Marie-Theres Stickel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Gendered Strategies of Power: Queen Elizabeth II as a Politician in the Plays The Audience (2015 [2013]) and Handbagged (2013) Eva Kirbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Royal Representations in Contemporary Popular Cultural Contexts
The (In)Significance of Queen Victoria in Neo-Victorian Comics Natalie Veith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Monarchy and the Alien: Three Queens as Sites of Memory in Doctor Who Marie Menzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
‘Party at the Palace’: Popular Cultural Celebrations in the Context of Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee Christina Jordan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Afterword
Afterword: The British Monarchy and Brexit Imke Polland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 270
Keywords: Media; Popular Culture; Contemporary History; Europe; Politics; Cultural History; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839445839