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Title: The Elizabeth Icon: 1603-2003 by Julia M. Walker ISBN: 1-4039-1199-1 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: So why do WE care about a dead royal?
Comment: The trouble with this book is that it never seems to wonder why any modern Americans would get so excited about this long-dead English queen. Didn't we have a revolution to get rid of all this royal stuff? OK, Elizabeth I was a woman, so touchy-feely types in Women's Studies might consider her fair game, but this study really needs to think harder about why it cares so much about her, given that this book was written in the US. It's written as if we were the same as the British -- American writings about Elizabeth and British ones are all mixed up together, as if they meant the same things -- and we just aren't, not any more, surely? I care a lot about which Old World fantasies we cling to, and why, but this book didn't help me think more clearly about it, and that's a disappointment.

Rating: 5
Summary: Splendid Overview of Elizabeth I in the Popular Imagination
Comment: This is a wonderfully written and fascinating book about Elizabeth I's iconic appearance in the popular imagination. It surveys everything from high art portraiture to twentieth-century teapots, and reveals a great deal about how English-speaking culture manipulates its reception of a powerful woman. Good scholarship, and good general reading.

Rating: 3
Summary: A year too late!
Comment: This is kinda fun, the material it covers, but nothing like so cool as ENGLAND'S ELIZABETH by Dobson and Watson (Oxford, 2002). Kinda sad, too, as it was clearly written for the 400th anniversary of Elizabeth's death last year but didn't make it. It just isn't well enough written, compared to the competition.