TY - JOUR
AU - Anderson, Nancy Fix
AB - Modern Europe 1099 longer. Eby and Firchow might have turned to she was actually an insensitive mother who did not theories of ideology and social reproduction, like children, including her own. Rarely seeing her which would have connected their studies to socio- children when they were linie, she manipulated logical and historical accounts of the origiris of and often belittled them as adults. She even tor- World War I. But, in any event, both Eby and mented her beloved Albert in his last years with vicious irrational accusations. Firchow offer important reminders that literary Weintraub offers an intriguing explanation for culture is not immune from the plagues of racism, Victoria's obsessive mourning after Albert's death, jingoism, and warmongering and that poets and grieving that caused her to abrogate for many novelists, too, may be among the causes of inter- years even the minimal responsibilittes of a cere- national violence and holocausts. monial monarch. With Victoria incapacitated dur- PATRICK BRANTLINGER ing her marriage by many pregnancies, emotional Indiana University depression, and political ineptitude, Albert was, in Weintraub's (and Benjamin Disraeli's) view, the STANLEY WEINTRAUB. ViCtOria: An Intimate Biogra- truc sovereign of England. After Albert died, phy. New York: Truman Talley 
TI - Stanley Weintraub. Victoria: An Intimate Biography. New York: Truman Talley or E. P. Dutton, New York. 1987. Pp. xiii, 700. $26.95
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/94.4.1099
DA - 1989-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/stanley-weintraub-victoria-an-intimate-biography-new-york-truman-Q8QjnV3ZUv
SP - 1099
EP - 1100
VL - 94
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -