Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (University Professor of German Literature

Gebundenes Buch

Projecting Imperial Power

New Nineteenth Century Emperors and the Public Sphere

Beschreibung

The nineteenth century is notable for its newly proclaimed emperors, from the well-known, such as Napoleon and Queen Victoria, to the lesser known, like Pedro II of Brazil. This book examines how emperors used images, religion, international exhibitions, and pageants to project their ijmperial power.

Autor

Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly is a Professor of German Literature at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow at Exeter College. She is the editor of The Cambridge History of German Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c. 1500-1800 (Routledge, 2016), and author of Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9780198802471
• ISBN-10: 0198802471
• Artikelnr.: 62046281