Queen Boudica and Historical Culture in Britain : an Image of Truth.

In this unique new study, Martha Vandrei examines how the ancient story of Queen Boudica has been represented throughout history, from Tacitus to the twentieth century, shedding light on the way the British public engages with the past.

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Main Author: Vandrei, Martha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2018.
Series:Past & present book series.
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505 0 |a Cover; Queen Boudica and Historical Culture in Britain: An Image of Truth; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Queen Boudica and the Idea of Historical Culture; INVENTING TRADITIONS AND MAKING HISTORY; 'WHAT IS HISTORY?'; HISTORICAL CULTURE; BOUDICA IN EARLY MODERNITY: ORIGINS AND SCHOLARSHIP; CHRONOLOGY, METHOD, AND STRUCTURE; 1: 'Higher then to her no bookes doe reach': The Queen and the Antiquary; TACITUS AND NEOSTOICISM IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN; THE STRUGGLES OF EDMUND BOLTON; BOUDICA, NERO, AND SEDITION. 
505 8 |a 2: 'They that write to all, must strive to please all': Historians, Playwrights, and the Drama of HistoryTHOMAS HEYWOOD, THE 'POETICALL HISTORIAN'; NATHANIEL CROUCH, PUBLISHER AND POPULARIZER; BOUDICA RETURNS TO THE STAGE, 1696-7; THE PANORAMA OF THE PAST; 3: 'Poetry and fiction intermixt with our history': Druids, Patriots, and Critics in the Eighteenth Century; POLITICIZING ANTIQUITY, NEGOTIATING HISTORY; DRAMA, HISTORY, AND HUMAN NATURE: RICHARD GLOVER'S BOADICIA, QUEEN OF BRITAIN; 4: 'Too strange to be popular': Negotiating Past and Present in Early Nineteenth-century Historical Culture. 
505 8 |a THE PATRIOT QUEEN (1808): CREATION AS RECEPTION'PLEASANT, FEMININE, READABLE': BOUDICA IN WOMEN'S HISTORIES; 'THAT BRAVE, MATERNAL, NOBLE, QUEENLY HEART': EMPIRE AND VERSE; 5: 'A great deal of historical claptrap': Heroine of Empire; UNITY OF PURPOSE? THOMAS THORNYCROFT'S 'BOADICEA GROUP' AND LATE VICTORIAN EMPIRE; ENTER THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS; THE QUEEN IN BRONZE; NOVELIZING BOUDICA; 6: 'That ubiquitous monarch': Boudica from Wales to Essex; 'BOADICEA REDIVIVA': BOUDICA IN WALES; LOCALITY AND PAGEANTRY; 'THE SOUL OF ENGLAND ON THE SCREEN': BOUDICA IN THE AGE OF FILM; Conclusion; Bibliography. 
505 8 |a ARCHIVAL SOURCESPUBLISHED SOURCES; NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS; SECONDARY LITERATURE; Index. 
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