{"product_id":"the-wake-of-wellington-peter-w-sinnema-9780821425299","title":"The Wake of Wellington: Englishness in 1852","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoldier, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wake of Wellington\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanvassing a profuse and dramatically proliferating Wellingtoniana, Sinnema examines the various assumptions behind, and implications of, the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wake of Wellington\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter W. Sinnema\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821425293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821425299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Peter W. Sinnema","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070128451839,"sku":"9780821425299","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be3a4c71-9fa6-42fa-89bb-84b4bddf5c1a.jpg?v=1685428522","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wake-of-wellington-peter-w-sinnema-9780821425299","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}