Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory

Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory
Author: Astrid Erll
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110204444

The specific concern of this collection is linking the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus rests in particular on two aspects of media use: the basic dynamics of mediation and remediation. The key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered?

Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-In)

Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-In)
Author: Shrabani Basu
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0525434429

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearestcompanion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim. In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo great loves—Prince Albert and John Brown—Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. The two form an unlikely bond and within a year Abdul becomes a powerful figure at court, the Queen’s teacher, her counsel on Urdu and Indian affairs, and a friend close to her heart. This marked the beginning of the most scandalous decade in Queen Victoria’s long reign. As the royal household roiled with resentment, Victoria and Abdul’s devotion grew in defiance. Drawn from secrets closely guarded for more than a century, Victoria & Abdul is an extraordinary and intimate history of the last years of the nineteenth-century English court and an unforgettable view onto the passions of an aging Queen.

Fenian Fire

Fenian Fire
Author: Christopher Campbell
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A historical investigation into one of the most serpentine attempts on Queen Victoria's life that reveals for the first time the true instigator at the heart of government. There were eight attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria during her long reign; four of them were of Irish origin. The most serious of all was the 'Jubilee Plot', a conspiracy apparently hatched in New York by the Fenian Brotherhood to blow up the Queen, her family and most of the British Cabinet with dynamite at the great service of thanksgiving to commemorate the 50th anniversary of her accession, held at Westminster Abbey in June 1887. The plot was 'uncovered' by Scotland Yard with just a few days to go. Several of the bombers were caught, tried and sentenced to penal servitude for life. But - warned off in time - the master bomber escaped to America... Now, using recently declassified Foreign Office Secret files (marked 'Fenian Brotherhood'), the author discloses for the first time the huge secret at the heart of the British counter-intelligence operation against militant Irish nationalists: the entire conspiracy was masterminded for its own reasons by a clandestine British agency reporting directly to the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury.

The Beautiful Life and Illustrious Reign of Queen Victoria

The Beautiful Life and Illustrious Reign of Queen Victoria
Author: John Rusk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 522
Release: 1901
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

An accurate and authentic account of the late Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, relating the incidents and events of her public and private life, together with a summary of the splendid achievements of her reign, sketches of royalty, and of the leading statesmen of her time. Also a concise history of England and her colonies during the Victorian Era.

Eastern Encounters

Eastern Encounters
Author: Emily Hannam
Publisher: Royal Collection Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Art, Mogul Empire
ISBN: 9781909741454

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, United Kingdom in June 2018.

Victoria the Queen

Victoria the Queen
Author: Julia Woodlands Baird
Publisher:
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1400069882

The race to the crown -- The birth of "pocket Hercules"--The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house"--Becoming queen: "I shall not fail" -- The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, not the master -- The palace intruders -- King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey" -- Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity -- Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year -- What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The Crimea: 'This unsatisfactory war' -- London boils over -- Royal parents: "everything passes so quickly!" -- "Who will call me Victoria now?" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow at Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- Enough to kill any man -- Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone -- The monarch in a bonnet -- The "poor munshi" -- The diamond empire -- The end of the Victorian Age - "The streets were indeed a strange sight

Wallpaper in Interior Decoration

Wallpaper in Interior Decoration
Author: Gill Saunders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Charts the rich and varied history of wallpaper, from its modest beginnings in the 16th century, through the lavish designs of the 18th century to the computer generated patterns of the late 20th century. This book is an insight into a subject rarely covered in books on interior design.

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking
Author: Deborah Cadbury
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1610398475

A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's grandchildren numbered over thirty, and to maintain and increase British royal power, she was determined to maneuver them into a series of dynastic marriages with the royal houses of Europe. Yet for all their apparent obedience, her grandchildren often had plans of their own, fueled by strong wills and romantic hearts. Victoria's matchmaking plans were further complicated by the tumultuous international upheavals of the time: revolution and war were in the air, and kings and queens, princes and princesses were vulnerable targets. Queen Victoria's Matchmaking travels through the glittering, decadent palaces of Europe from London to Saint Petersburg, weaving in scandals, political machinations and family tensions to enthralling effect. It is at once an intimate portrait of a royal family and an examination of the conflict caused by the marriages the Queen arranged. At the heart of it all is Victoria herself: doting grandmother one moment, determined Queen Empress the next.