Ruritania

A cultural history of Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda that explores its afterlife including how it was adapted for stage and screen, woven into narratives about the Cold War, and influenced children's writers such as Frances Hodgson Burnett and Meg Cabot.

List 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

About the author

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.

Summary

A cultural history of Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda that explores its afterlife including how it was adapted for stage and screen, woven into narratives about the Cold War, and influenced children's writers such as Frances Hodgson Burnett and Meg Cabot.

Additional text

insightful and entertaining ... Ruritania: A Cultural History shines as an academic study informed by detailed scholarship, sophisticated analysis and zestful prose.

Product details

• Authors: Daly, Nicholas Daly, Nicholas (Professor of Modern English and American Literature Daly, Daly Nicholas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2019
• EAN: 9780198836605
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883660-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Film, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Theatre Studies, Theatre: individual actors & directors, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Film: styles & genres, Individual actors and performers, Film: styles and genres