Royal Mourning and Regency Culture

Royal Mourning and Regency Culture
Author: S. Behrendt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1997-09-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0230376320

This book examines the widespread response in British artistic media to the death in childbirth in 1817 of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince Regent and heiress to the throne, showing how both in print materials like poetry and sermons and extra-literary artifacts like visual art, ceramics, metalwork, and textiles her life and death were invested with the qualities of myth even as her memorialists appropriated her experiences in the process of producing consumer commodities for an emerging mass audience.