Horatio Nelson: A Controversial Hero - Brossura

Czisnik, Marianne

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ISBN 10: 0340900210 ISBN 13: 9780340900215

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2005

Riassunto

Marianne Czisnik illuminates the life and reputation of Britain's most famous admiral in a fresh and groundbreaking manner. Some of the most controversial aspects of his life and career are explored, such as his involvement in the defeat of the Neapolitan revolution and his notorious love affair with Lady Hamilton. Along the way, new research provides original insights into the character of this complex man and the way his image was developed by successive generations of biographers and naval historians. The second part traces how the figure of Nelson has evolved in the popular imagination during the two hundred years since his death. This includes an examination of imagery, propaganda and fiction, as well as treatments of the admiral from a French, Spanish and German perspective. In this distinctive contribution to Nelson literature, Czisnik expertly reveals how the real man has been obscured, distorted and misunderstood by those for whom the image was more important than the reality.

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Recensione:

'The distinctive nature of this book is that it focuses on the way Nelson was seen by contemporaries and subsequent generations...and is based on a complete mastery of the correspondence between Nelson and Lady Hamilton. This is a book of real insight: there is no blandness it is very readable.' --Dr Michael Duffy, University of Exeter

Marianne Czisnik's Horatio Nelson: a Controversial Hero demonstrates that there is still much more to understand about this man. Czisnik, significantly not of the UK, demonstrates the necessity to suspend for a time the business of writing full but superficial and subjective biographies, and to take a more clinical and analytical approach to a character that even contemporaries acknowledged as complex......The result is that we get to know Nelson more intimately than in even the fullest of the other biographies.

--(History in Focus Issue 9, The Sea )

L'autore:

Dr. Marianne Czisnik is a leading scholar and has published on a wide range of topics related to Horation Nelson. She has a law degree and practiced in Germany before becoming a researcher of Nelson at the University of Edinburgh.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0340900210
• ISBN 13: 9780340900215
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 192