Royal Mourning and Regency Culture

Download or read book Royal Mourning and Regency Culture written by S. Behrendt and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-09-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.