Introduction: Queen Boudica and the Idea of Historical Culture
1: 'Higher then to her no bookes doe reach': The Queen and the
Antiquary
2: 'They that write to all, must strive to please all': Historians,
Playwrights, and the Drama of History, 1640-1700
3: 'Poetry and fiction intermixt with our history': Druids,
Patriots, and Critics in the Eighteenth Century
4: 'Too strange to be popular': Negotiating Past and Present in
Nineteenth-Century Historical Culture
5: 'A great deal of historical claptrap': Heroine of Empire?
6: 'That ubiquitous monarch': Finding Boudica from Wales to
Essex
Conclusion
Bibliography
Martha Vandrei is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Exeter. This is her first book.
[Vandrei's] dissections of historical practices contained within
are attentive not only to language, form, and visual culture, but
also to every contingency and circumstance surrounding the
construction of Boudican historical products. That this is achieved
so skillfully across such a vast chronological canvas is worthy of
significant admiration...a superb book that offers an enormous
amount to think with for scholars of Britain, and of history.
*Laura Carter, University of Cambridge*
Vandrei's impressively wide research into the evolving, fractured,
and often contradictory expressions of British historical culture
takes in written histories, poetry, stage plays, historical fiction
and pageants; emotion, religion, nationalism, and politics; notions
of femininity; imagined portraits of Boudica, from the woodcut in
Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) to Thomas Thornycroft's
bronze statue of her on Westminster Bridge; fittingly named ships
in the Royal Navy; and a 1929 film. The text is supported by
illustrations, footnotes, an extensive bibliography, and an
index.
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