Projecting Imperial Power: New Nineteenth Century Emperors and the Public Sphere

ISBN-13: 9780198802471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 360 str.

Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

Recenzje

The narrative strength of the book lies in its presentation of the visual power of imperial ceremonies such as emperors' coronations, their portraits, narratives, architectures, and acts of commemoration in Europe, South America, and India.

O autorze

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).