Ruritania: A Cultural History, from The Prisoner of Zenda to the Princess Diaries

Author:   Nicholas Daly (Professor of Modern English and American Literature, University College Dublin)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198836605


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   15 January 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Nicholas Daly (Professor of Modern English and American Literature, University College Dublin)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9780198836605


ISBN 10:   0198836600
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   15 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Locating Ruritania 1: Anthony Hope Hawkins, George Alexander, and The Prisoner of Zenda 2: zenda on Screen 3: Graustark: The American Ruritania 4: Ruritania in Waltz Time: From Operetta to the Film Musical 5: Pocket Kingdoms, the Cold War, and the Bomb 6: The Ruritanian Makeover: The Princess Diaries and Princess Culture

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insightful and entertaining ... Ruritania: A Cultural History shines as an academic study informed by detailed scholarship, sophisticated analysis and zestful prose. * Michael Dirda, Wall Street Journal *


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Educated at University College Cork and Brown University, Nicholas Daly is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has also taught at Wesleyan University, Dartmouth College, and Trinity College Dublin. His publications include Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle (1999), Literature, Technology and Modernity (2004), Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (2009), and The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City: Paris, London, New York (2015). He edited Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel for Oxford World's Classics, and he is completing a new edition of Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda.

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