A cultural history of Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda that explores its afterlife including how it was adapted for stage and screen, woven into narratives about the Cold War, and influenced children's writers such as Frances Hodgson Burnett and Meg Cabot.
Introduction: Locating Ruritania; 1 Anthony Hope Hawkins, George Alexander, and The Prisoner of Zenda; 2 zenda on Screen; 3 Graustark: The American Ruritania; 4 Ruritania in Waltz Time: From Operetta to the Film Musical; 5 Pocket Kingdoms, the Cold War, and the Bomb; 6 The Ruritanian Makeover: The Princess Diaries and Princess Culture
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