Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly is a Professor of German Literature at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow at Exeter College. She is the editor of The Cambridge History of German Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c. 1500-1800 (Routledge, 2016), and author of Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2010).

• Introduction 1: Creating Myth, Asserting Dynasty 2: Adopting the Imperial Idea Outside Europe 3: Performing Emperorship 4: Being an Imperial Consort 5: Seeing the Emperor 6: Harnessing Religion to the Imperial Cause 7: Creating the Imperial City 8: Showcasing the Empire - International Exhibitions 9: Inventing Empire in India and Britain 10: Staging Empire as History and Allegory in Germany and Austria 11: Ending an Remembering

This ground-breaking study is the first, as the book's blurb states, "to consider together these newly proclaimed emperors in six territories on three continents across the whole of the long nineteenth-century." The author draws upon a wealth of written sources and offers a multifaceted approach, exploring how these monarchs projected an imperial aura through courts, honours, coronations, city planning, and much more. This absorbing book brings new perspectives to key themes in the history of emperorship.

Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly is a Professor of German Literature at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow at Exeter College. She is the editor of The Cambridge History of German Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c. 1500-1800 (Routledge, 2016), and author of Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2010).

• Introduction 1: Creating Myth, Asserting Dynasty 2: Adopting the Imperial Idea Outside Europe 3: Performing Emperorship 4: Being an Imperial Consort 5: Seeing the Emperor 6: Harnessing Religion to the Imperial Cause 7: Creating the Imperial City 8: Showcasing the Empire - International Exhibitions 9: Inventing Empire in India and Britain 10: Staging Empire as History and Allegory in Germany and Austria 11: Ending an Remembering

This ground-breaking study is the first, as the book's blurb states, "to consider together these newly proclaimed emperors in six territories on three continents across the whole of the long nineteenth-century." The author draws upon a wealth of written sources and offers a multifaceted approach, exploring how these monarchs projected an imperial aura through courts, honours, coronations, city planning, and much more. This absorbing book brings new perspectives to key themes in the history of emperorship.

Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly is a Professor of German Literature at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow at Exeter College. She is the editor of The Cambridge History of German Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c. 1500-1800 (Routledge, 2016), and author of Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2010).

• Introduction 1: Creating Myth, Asserting Dynasty 2: Adopting the Imperial Idea Outside Europe 3: Performing Emperorship 4: Being an Imperial Consort 5: Seeing the Emperor 6: Harnessing Religion to the Imperial Cause 7: Creating the Imperial City 8: Showcasing the Empire - International Exhibitions 9: Inventing Empire in India and Britain 10: Staging Empire as History and Allegory in Germany and Austria 11: Ending an Remembering

This ground-breaking study is the first, as the book's blurb states, "to consider together these newly proclaimed emperors in six territories on three continents across the whole of the long nineteenth-century." The author draws upon a wealth of written sources and offers a multifaceted approach, exploring how these monarchs projected an imperial aura through courts, honours, coronations, city planning, and much more. This absorbing book brings new perspectives to key themes in the history of emperorship.