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The Wake of Wellington Peter W. Sinnema

The Wake of Wellington By Peter W. Sinnema

The Wake of Wellington by Peter W. Sinnema


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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 Englands response to the dukes death.

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The Wake of Wellington: Englishness in 1852 by Peter W. Sinnema

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 Englands response to the dukes death.
The Wake of Wellington considers Wellingtons spectacular funeral pageant in the fall of 1852an unprecedented event that attracted one and a half million spectators to Londonas 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 Timess 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.

The Wake of Wellington Reviews

The scholarship is impeccable, and the analysis both thorough and subtle; it is easy to read and full of useful and fascinating information.The Wake of Wellington should be read by anyone interested in the Victorian period. * Victorian Studies *
Sinnema provides fascinating insight into the process by which an Anglo-Irishman assumed Englishness and was appropriated (with some whitewashing of his personal life, and despite his political reputation) as a quintessential Englishman, the embodiment of the English traits of simplicity of character, common sense, and the veneration of duty, whose death celebrations staged Englishness, London, and the [English] nation. * University of Toronto Quarterly *
Well-researched, well-written, well-organized, informative, and often entertaining. -- Patrick Brantlinger, author of Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 18001930
The funeral on November 18, 1852, of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, was less a laying to rest than an earthquake, exposing a range of fault lines in Victorian culture and producing aftershocks felt long after the event. These aftereffects are the subjects of Peter W. Sinnemas The Wake of Wellington, which focuses on neither the illustrious man nor his lavish funeral, but on the cultural repercussions that followed in the wake of his death. * Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly *

About Peter W. Sinnema

Peter W. Sinnema is a professor of English at the University of Alberta. He is author of Dynamics of the Pictured Page: Representing the Nation in the Illustrated London News and editor of the Oxford Worlds Classics edition of Self-Help by Samuel Smiles.

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GOR002824762
9780821416792
0821416790
The Wake of Wellington: Englishness in 1852 by Peter W. Sinnema
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Ohio University Press
2006-04-21
192
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