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Subtitle: The Queen and Victorian Writers
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780813918938
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; History and criticism; 19th Century English Literature; Women In English Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; Women and literature; Women Authors; 19th century; Great Britain; History; Politics and literature
First sentence: VICTORIAN SUBJECTIVITY WAS both cause and effect of the Industrial Revolution.
Description: "Queens, by Definition, embody a historical contradiction between femininity and power. Queen Victoria, whose strength and longevity defined an age, possessed immense cultural as well as political power, even becoming a writer herself."--BOOK JACKET.

"This cultural sovereignty, argues Gail Turley Houston, in the hands of a female monarch troubled writers, especially men, who worked during a reign that viewed women as domestic angels. By exploring a wide range of representations of the queen by significant Victorian writers, Houston points out the complexity of Victorian constructions of gender, representation, authority, and identity.

She works to demystify such canonized authors as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Margaret Oliphant by examining the ways they encounter Victoria in their writings. The queen's feminine power seems to be at odds with the masculine profession of author, which was also coming to be viewed as a significant representative of the culture."--BOOK JACKET.