{"product_id":"ruritania-a-cultural-history-from-the-prisoner-of-zenda-to-the-princess-diaries-9780198836605","title":"Ruritania: A Cultural History, from the Prisoner of Zenda to the Princess Diaries","description":"This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's \u003cem\u003eThe Prisoner of Zenda\u003c\/em\u003e (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of Ruritania to foil a coup, \u003cbr\u003ebut faces a dilemma when he falls for the lovely Princess Flavia. Hope's novel inspired stage and screen adaptations, place names, and even a board game, but it also launched a whole new subgenre, the Ruritanian romance. The new form offered swordplay, royal romance, and splendid uniforms and\u003cbr\u003egowns in such settings as Alasia, Balaria, and Cadonia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis study explores both the original appeal of \u003cem\u003eThe Prisoner of Zenda\u003c\/em\u003e, and the extraordinary longevity and adaptability of the Ruritanian formula, which, it is argued, has been rooted in a lingering fascination with royalty, and the pocket kingdom's capacity to hold a looking glass up to Britain and\u003cbr\u003elater the United States. Individual chapters look at Hope's novel and its stage and film adaptations; at the forgotten American versions of Ruritania; at the chocolate-box principalities of the musical stage; at Cold War reworkings of the formula; and at Ruritania's recent reappearance in young\u003cbr\u003eadult fiction and made-for-television Christmas movies. The adventures of Ruritania have involved a diverse list of contributors, including John Buchan, P.G Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ian Fleming among the writers; Sigmund Romberg and Ivor Novello among the composers; Erich\u003cbr\u003eVon Stroheim and David O. Selznick among the film-makers; and Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Ustinov, Peter Sellers, and Anne Hathaway among the performers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Daly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198836605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Daly, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Modern English and American Literature, University College Dublin\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEducated 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 \u003cem\u003eModernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siecle\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), \u003cem\u003eLiterature, Technology and Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), \u003cem\u003eSensation and Modernity in the 1860s\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), and \u003cem\u003eThe Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City: Paris, London, New York\u003c\/em\u003e (2015). He edited Baroness Orczy's \u003cem\u003eThe Scarlet\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ePimpernel\u003c\/em\u003e for Oxford World's Classics, and he is completing a new edition of Anthony Hope's \u003cem\u003eThe Prisoner of Zenda\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932117352563,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_74be9e50-85ad-49b5-80d0-c105f36fc422.jpg?v=1647790479","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/ruritania-a-cultural-history-from-the-prisoner-of-zenda-to-the-princess-diaries-9780198836605","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}