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The Wake of Wellington - Englishness in 1852 (Paperback)
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The Wake of Wellington - Englishness in 1852 (Paperback)
Series: Series in Victorian Studies
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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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