Sentimental States of the Nation: Remembering Diana, Princess of Wales (and Shakespeare’s Richard II)

Krug C (2025)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2025

Publisher: transcript

Edited Volumes: Sentimental State(s): Affective Politics of Order and Belonging

Series: Global Sentimentality

City/Town: Bielefeld

Book Volume: 3

ISBN: 978-3-8376-7417-0

Abstract

The essay looks at three sentimental states of the British nation: First, it considers representations of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 and of a ‘nation in mourning’. Second, the anniversary of her death in 2017 allows for a discussion of the temporality of the sentimental and related concepts such as nostalgia. Third, it discusses Shakespeare’s Richard II in the first Quarto of The Tragedie of King Richard the Second (1597) in relation to Diana, as a proto-sentimental hero(ine).

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APA:

Krug, C. (2025). Sentimental States of the Nation: Remembering Diana, Princess of Wales (and Shakespeare’s Richard II). In Paul, Heike; Pritz, Sarah Miriam (Eds.), Sentimental State(s): Affective Politics of Order and Belonging. Bielefeld: transcript.

MLA:

Krug, Christian. "Sentimental States of the Nation: Remembering Diana, Princess of Wales (and Shakespeare’s Richard II)." Sentimental State(s): Affective Politics of Order and Belonging. Ed. Paul, Heike; Pritz, Sarah Miriam, Bielefeld: transcript, 2025.

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