The wake of Wellington : Englishness in 1852

The Resource The wake of Wellington : Englishness in 1852
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The wake of Wellington : Englishness in 1852
Title remainder
Englishness in 1852
Statement of responsibility
Peter W. Sinnema
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Language
eng
Summary
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-viewe
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Action
digitized
Cataloging source
COO
Dewey number
941.07092
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
DA68.12.W4
LC item number
S56 2006eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Series in Victorian Studies

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