Dianaworld
An Obsession
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2025
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-02156-8 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-02156-8 (ISBN)
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A fascinating new perspective on the life and afterlife of Diana Spencer, the planet’s all-purpose cultural icon.
Drawing on a kaleidoscopic array of sources and perspectives never before used in books about Diana or the royal family—from interviews with professional lookalikes to the diaries of ordinary people and the peculiar work of outsider artists—Edward White guides us through Dianaworld, the strange precinct of a global cultural obsession. It’s a place of mass delusions, outsized fantasies, and quixotic dreams; of druids, psychics, Hollywood stars, sex workers, obsessive stalkers, radical feminists, and Middle Eastern generals. White encounters startling, contradictory visions of Diana: a harbinger of Brexit populism and a catalyst for #MeToo; an all-American consumer capitalist and champion of non-Western tradition; the savior of the British aristocracy but also—in the words of one superfan—“the biggest punk that’s come out of England.” This is Diana, Princess of the True Inner Self, the ultimate heroine for our times: in Dianaworld you’ll find a version of Diana that was Jewish, or working-class, or republican—or anything else that she wasn’t but you are.
Drawing on a kaleidoscopic array of sources and perspectives never before used in books about Diana or the royal family—from interviews with professional lookalikes to the diaries of ordinary people and the peculiar work of outsider artists—Edward White guides us through Dianaworld, the strange precinct of a global cultural obsession. It’s a place of mass delusions, outsized fantasies, and quixotic dreams; of druids, psychics, Hollywood stars, sex workers, obsessive stalkers, radical feminists, and Middle Eastern generals. White encounters startling, contradictory visions of Diana: a harbinger of Brexit populism and a catalyst for #MeToo; an all-American consumer capitalist and champion of non-Western tradition; the savior of the British aristocracy but also—in the words of one superfan—“the biggest punk that’s come out of England.” This is Diana, Princess of the True Inner Self, the ultimate heroine for our times: in Dianaworld you’ll find a version of Diana that was Jewish, or working-class, or republican—or anything else that she wasn’t but you are.
Edward White is the author of The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock and The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America. He has written for publications including the Paris Review. He lives in England.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.8.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 23 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-324-02156-X / 132402156X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-324-02156-8 / 9781324021568 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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