{"product_id":"9781611490602","title":"Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court: American Encounters with Victoria and Albert","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe instant magnetism, for Americans, of British royalty began with Queen Victoria. For the first generations liberated by revolution, however, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the moon. In the young nation, Americans who had been little interested in the sons and daughters of their last king, George III, developed a love-hate relationship with his granddaughter. It lasted for all of her sixty-four years on the throne, ending only with her death in the first weeks of the twentieth century. Victoria's long reign encompassed much of the time in which the young United States was growing up. The responses of Americans toward Victoria not only reveal what they thought of her (and her princely husband) as people and as monarchs, but also reflect their own ambitions, confidence, smugness, insecurities—and sense of loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParting from England brought a surge of pride, but it also carried with it an unanticipated price. American encounters with Queen Victoria as person and as sym bol evoke the costs of relinquishing a history, a tradition, a ceremonial texture. The brash, bewildered, and beguiled Americans in these pages, from lion tamer Isaac Van Amburgh, Barnum's midget \"Tom Thumb,\" and sharpshooter Annie Oakley, to liter ary lions like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Henry James, evince not only another dimension of the remote woman who might have been their queen, but what Americans were like, and what they thought they were like, in her time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Delaware Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037563109616,"sku":"9781611490602","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611490602_p0.jpg?v=1763841259","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611490602","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}