England's Elizabeth : an afterlife in fame and fantasy /

No monarch is more glamorous or more controversial than Elizabeth I. The stories by which successive generations have sought to extol, explain, or excoriate Elizabeth supply a rich index to the cultural history of English nationalism - whether they represent her as Anne Boleyn's suffering orpha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dobson, Michael, 1960-
Other Authors: Watson, Nicola J., 1958-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=150001
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen
  • Chronology
  • Gloriana Revives
  • The Private Lives of the Virgin Queen
  • Good Queen Bess and Merrie England
  • The Faery Queen and Victorian Values
  • An Empress and her Adventurers
  • Elizabeth Modernized
  • Afterword: Virginia in the New World.