1st Edition

Talking of the Royal Family

By Prof Michael Billig, Michael Billig Copyright 1991
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    To talk about royalty is to talk of many things: privilege, equality, nationality, morality, family life, parenting, divorce, the media and more. Important themes and issues flow through the seemingly trivial everyday chatter about royalty.
    Now with a new preface, Talking of the Royal Family was the first serious full-length study of royalty to emerge from this rhetorical perspective and remains relevant today.

    Preface, Preface to the reissue, Acknowledgements, 1 INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM OF MONARCHY, 2 THE ENVY OF THE WORLD, 3 THE CONTINUING MYSTERY, 4 IDENTIFYING WITH ‘THEM’, 5 SETTLING ACCOUNTS, 6 DESIRE, DENIAL AND THE PRESS, 7 A WOMAN’S REALM, 8 THE HERITAGE OF THE FUTURE, Appendix, References, Name index, Subject index

    Biography

    Prof Michael Billig, Michael Billig