Title The wake of Wellington : Englishness in 1852 / Peter W. Sinnema

Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 165 pages) : illustrations Series Series in Victorian Studies Series in Victorian Studies Contents A chronology of the Duke of Wellington -- Aftereffects : Wellington and Englishness -- First rehearsal : exhibition -- Second rehearsal : simplicity -- The waiting game : selling Wellington and crowd anxiety -- Obsequies and sanctification -- Irish opposition -- Epilogue : the Hyde Park Corner controversy 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-160) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 -- Death and burial Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 -- Influence SUBJECT Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 fast Wellington, Arthur Wellesley of. swd Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century National characteristics, English -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Death and burial of a person Civilization Funeral rites and ceremonies Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) National characteristics, English Tod Nationalbewusstsein Presse Berichterstattung SUBJECT England -- Civilization -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043278 Subject England Great Britain Großbritannien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780821442098 0821442090

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