Edinburgh University Press
The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots
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About this book
Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) was active as monarch of Scotland for just six years between 1561 and 1567, but her impact as a ruler in Scotland is much less important than her subsequent role in popular culture and imagination. Her story has enjoyed perpetual retelling and reached a global audience over the past four and a half centuries. This collection surveys the exceptionally varied range of objects, literature, art and media that have been produced to commemorate Mary between her own time and the present day. Why is her story so enduring, pervasive, and of such interest to so many different audiences? How have the narratives associated with these objects evolved in response to shifting cultural attitudes? The collection offers a much-needed novel perspective on the Queen of Scots, using an approach at the intersection of early modern, gender and cultural history, museum and heritage studies, and memory studies.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Tables and Figures
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Acknowledgements
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The Contributors
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Abbreviations and Conventions
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Introduction The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots: Themes and Paradigms
1 - Part One Mary in Contemporary Objects
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1 Damnatio Memoriae: Mary, Queen of Scots’ Iconography and the Ham House Portrait of Sir John Maitland of Thirlestane
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2 New Perspectives on the Sheffield Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots including the Discovery of a New, Related, Contemporary Portrait
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3 Memorialising (in) Mary, Queen of Scots’ Books of Hours
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4 The Afterlives of Mary’s Letters
106 - Part Two Mary in Literature and History
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5 Editing and Collecting Mary, Queen of Scots in the Eighteenth Century: James Anderson (1662–1728) and Dr William Hunter (1718–83)
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6 The Battle for Memory: The Reception of Mary, Queen of Scots in the Eighteenth-century British Periodical Press
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7 ‘Deeply impressed upon the imagination’: The Return of Mary in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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8 ‘A tracked and hunted creature’: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Histories of David Hay Fleming, Andrew Lang, Gordon Donaldson and Antonia Fraser
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9 Re-imagining Mary, Queen of Scots in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Writing
197 - Part Three Collecting and Displaying Mary
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10 Collecting and Exhibiting Marian Objects in Nineteenth-century Britain
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11 ‘The most interesting apartment in Scotland’: The History and Presentation of Mary, Queen of Scots’ Chambers at the Palace of Holyroodhouse
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12 Materialising Mary in a Museum: Marian Objects and Authenticity
267 - Part Four Mary in Media
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13 Minstrels of Maelstroms: Mary’s Musical Afterlives
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14 The Transformations of Mary, Queen of Scots in Early Cinema, 1895–1923
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15 Long Live the Queen: The Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Contemporary Visual Culture
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INDEX
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