The End of the Victorian Era: Reflections on an Edwardian Viewpoint
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Giacomo Delledonne
Giacomo Delledonne’s fields of research include Italian and comparative constitutional law, comparative federalism, and law and literature. He is the author of essays, articles and short comments in Italian, English, French, German, and Spanish. He has authored two monographs as sole author and co-edited six books. His first monograph on
L’omogeneità costituzionale negli ordinamenti composti (Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica, 2017) was awarded the Panunzio Prize, organised by the Italian Association of Constitutional Law Scholars on an annual basis. He is currently a collaborator of the Research Department of the Italian Constitutional Court.
Abstract
This short piece makes some points on the end of Victorian age as perceived and fictionalised by a contemporary author, John Galsworthy. In one of the novels of his Forsyte Saga, first published in 1921, Galsworthy brought back Queen Victoria’s death and funeral procession. After analysing this passage, the piece addresses the issues of historical continuity and legitimacy of the British monarchy.
About the author
Giacomo Delledonne’s fields of research include Italian and comparative constitutional law, comparative federalism, and law and literature. He is the author of essays, articles and short comments in Italian, English, French, German, and Spanish. He has authored two monographs as sole author and co-edited six books. His first monograph on L’omogeneità costituzionale negli ordinamenti composti (Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica, 2017) was awarded the Panunzio Prize, organised by the Italian Association of Constitutional Law Scholars on an annual basis. He is currently a collaborator of the Research Department of the Italian Constitutional Court.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Constitutional Theory as Literature in the 19th-Century Anglosphere
- Focus
- Charles Dickens, Albert Venn Dicey, and Openness in the Anglosphere
- Rhetoric and Empire: Constitutional Thought and Literature in the 19th-Century Anglosphere
- Authoring the Nation: Madame de Staël and the Literary Origins of the State
- The End of the Victorian Era: Reflections on an Edwardian Viewpoint
- Illustrating the Indian Penal Code: Bigamy, the Victorian Novel, and the Formation of National Identity
- The Christian Year – Still Needed? John Keble on the ‘Co-Extensiveness’ of Church and State
- Research
- We Have Never Been Persons!
- A Tragic Photograph: Emotional Journey of a Political Spectator
- Thoughts, Words, and Promises: Fides and the Legal Significance of the Inner Sphere
