Projecting Imperial Power: New Nineteenth Century Emperors and the Public Sphere

Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

ISBN 10: 0198802471 / ISBN 13: 9780198802471

Published by Oxford University Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Projecting Imperial Power: New Nineteenth Century Emperors and the Public Sphere
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198802471
• ISBN 13: 9780198802471
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 697 grams

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Synopsis

The nineteenth century is notable for its newly proclaimed emperors, from the well-known, such as Napoleon and Queen Victoria, to the lesser known, like Pedro II of Brazil. This book examines how emperors used images, religion, international exhibitions, and pageants to project their ijmperial power.

About the Author

Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Professor of German Literature, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow, Exeter College, University of Oxford

Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly is a Professor of German Literature at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow at Exeter College. She is the editor of The Cambridge History of German Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c. 1500-1800 (Routledge, 2016), and author of Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2010).