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Genre/Form: | Illustrated works Art Biography Pictorial works |
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Named Person: | Diana, Princess of Wales; Diana, Princess of Wales; Diana, Princess of Wales; Diana, Princess of Wales; Prinzessin) Diana (Wales |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Colleen Denney |
ISBN: | 0838640230 9780838640234 |
OCLC Number: | 56490960 |
Description: | 188 pages, [4] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : cultural memory, the Princess, and fairy tales revisited -- Courted darlings and virgin brides -- Mothers of future kings : the Madonna redux phenomenon -- Angels of mercy and the cultural memory of "the lady bountiful" -- Dress, royal portraiture, and the royal body -- Dress as autobiography in the Christie's auction catalog, dresses from the collection of Diana, Princess of Wales -- The Princess, globally and locally. |
Responsibility: | by Colleen Denney. |
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Abstract:
"Through an examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings, photographs, engravings, and popular illustrations, the study engages a comparative visual dialogue on the imaging of royal women. Looking particularly at the nineteenth-century Princess of Wales, Alexandra (born Princess Alexandra of Denmark), the author reveals the persistence of a cultural memory in terms of the proper roles and behaviors of a princess from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century."
"By looking at portraits of Diana, Princess of Wales, in conjunction with past royal portraits, the study determines that she, like Princess Alexandra before her, is conscious of tradition and employs it as a matter of survival. The book's methods in this regard include an exploration of royal portrait traditions, gender studies, popular journalism, theories on feminist biography and autobiography, as well as costume theory and history to contextualize the representation of Diana, Princess of Wales." "The text is accompanied by six color photographs, and more than 100 black-and-white illustrations."--Jacket.
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