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Title: | The Wake of Wellington: Englishness in 1852 | Item Condition: | used item in a very good condition | |
Author: | Prof. Peter W Sinnema | ISBN 10: | 0821416790 | |
Publisher: | Ohio University Press | ISBN 13: | 9780821416792 | |
Published On: | 2006-04-21 | SKU: | 7719-9780821416792 | |
Binding: | Hardcover | Language: | English | |
Edition: | 1 | List Price: | - |
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Soldier, hero, and politician, the Duke of Wellington is one of the best-known figures of nineteenth-century England. From his victory at Waterloo over Napoleon in 1815, he rose to become prime minister of his country. But Peter Sinnema finds equal fascination in Victorian England’s response to the Duke’s death. The Wake of Wellington considers Wellington’s spectacular funeral pageant in the fall of 1852—an unprecedented event that attracted one and a half million spectators to London—as a threshold event against which the life of the soldier-hero and High-Tory statesman could be re-viewed and represented. Canvassing a profuse and dramatically proliferating Wellingtoniana, Sinnema examines the various assumptions behind, and implications of, the Times’s celebrated claim that the Irish-born Wellington “was the very type and model of an Englishman.” The dead duke, as Sinnema demonstrates, was repeatedly caught up in interpretive practices that stressed the quasi-symbolic relations between hero and nation. The Wake of Wellington provides a unique view of how in death Wellington and his career were promoted as the consummation of a national destiny intimately bound up with Englishness itself, and with what it meant to be English at midcentury. |
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