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Behold the hero : General Wolfe and the arts in the eighteenth century /
"Alan McNairn analyses representations of General James 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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- 1 Up, Up, with Roast Beef
- 2 Sorrow Turned into Joy
- 3 The Glorious Catastrophe
- 4 Too Short Was His Life, But Immortal His Deeds
- 5 They Vote a Monument of Lasting Fame
- 6 A Coat and Waistcoat Subject
- 7 Ardent for Fame
- 8 A Revolution in Art
- 9 It Was He Who Had Immortalized Wolfe
- 10 Lively and Impressive Instruction
- 11 The Front Face Is No Likeness at All
- 12 Wolfe Now Detached and Bent on Bolder Deeds
- 13 Postscript: The Realism Was Overpowering
- Appendix: Birth and Death Dates of Individuals Discussed in the TextNotes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
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