'(Un)Making the Monarchy' offers a kaleidoscopic view on the British monarchy - an institution
that today seems integral almost inevitable to the British political system and the very
texture of Britishness Englishness. The contributions in this volume seek to historicise
contextualise and politicise such dominant myths of the monarchy. They look at the strategies
through which monarchical power has been legitimised and naturalised in the texts and practices
of (not only) British culture and at the way in which the monarchy has in turn been used to
legitimise and naturalise other hegemonic structures in society. They also engage with the
forms and practices that have sought to contest and subvert monarchical power. Contributors
thus tackle the psychological performative and political dimensions of monarchical reign
examine supportive as well as critical satirical and anti-monarchist representations in
literature theatre the media and deal with some of the monarchy's self-representations
through public relations fashion and language.
