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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: Creating Myth, Asserting Dynasty 2: Adopting the Imperial Idea Outside Europe 3: Performing Emperorship 4: Being an Imperial Consort 5: Seeing the Emperor 6: Harnessing Religion to the Imperial Cause 7: Creating the Imperial City 8: Showcasing the Empire - International Exhibitions 9: Inventing Empire in India and Britain 10: Staging Empire as History and Allegory in Germany and Austria 11: Ending an Remembering
Introduction 1: Creating Myth, Asserting Dynasty 2: Adopting the Imperial Idea Outside Europe 3: Performing Emperorship 4: Being an Imperial Consort 5: Seeing the Emperor 6: Harnessing Religion to the Imperial Cause 7: Creating the Imperial City 8: Showcasing the Empire - International Exhibitions 9: Inventing Empire in India and Britain 10: Staging Empire as History and Allegory in Germany and Austria 11: Ending an Remembering
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