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Behold the hero : General Wolfe and the arts in the eighteenth century / Alan McNairn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNairn, Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Popular culture.
- Popular culture--Canada--History--18th century.
- Popular culture--United States--History--18th century.
- Wolfe, James, 1727-1759--Portraits.
- Wolfe, James.
- Wolfe, James, 1727-1759--In literature.
- Wolfe, James, 1727-1759--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- McNairn analyses representations of Wolfe in both popular culture and high art, from mass-produced ceramics to Benjamin West's famous painting of the death of Wolfe, from popular songs to the writings of Oliver Goldsmith, Horace Walpole, Tobias Smollett, Thomas Godfrey, Benjamin Franklin, and William Cowper. He argues that Wolfe became the embodiment of British patriotism and the superiority of the English way of life, and that the multitude of literary and visual works about Wolfe, which primarily focus on his death, were created in an environment in which legends of inspiring, politically persuasive heroics were much in demand. Behold the Hero will be of interest to historians of eighteenth-century England and America, art historians, material historians, and students of eighteenth-century English literature and drama.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Up, Up, with Roast Beef
- Sorrow Turned into Joy
- The Glorious Catastrophe
- Too Short Was His Life, But Immortal His Deeds
- They Vote a Monument of Lasting Fame
- A Coat and Waistcoat Subject
- Ardent for Fame
- A Revolution in Art
- It Was He Who Had Immortalized Wolfe
- Lively and Impressive Instruction
- The Front Face Is No Likeness at All
- Wolfe Now Detached and Bent on Bolder Deeds
- Postscript: The Realism Was Overpowering
- Appendix Birth and Death Dates of Individuals Mentioned in the Text
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-302) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85434-8
- 9786612854347
- 0-7735-6643-0
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