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- Title
NELSON THE CITIZEN HERO: STATE AND PUBLIC PATRONAGE OF MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE 1805-18.
- Authors
Yarrington, Alison
- Abstract
This article highlights the heroic deeds of Horatio Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), a warrior from Great Britain. Nelson was an admiral in the armed forces of Great Britain. He was undoubtedly the most revered hero in Britain among all the heroes of the French Wars. The emergence of hero-worship as a dominant factor in British culture during the early century was one manifestation of the moral value of patriotic self-sacrifice. According to the nineteenth century poet and writer of Great Britain Robert Southey, it was Nelson's glorious exit from the stage of the war that guaranteed his immortality in the British eye.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; NELSON, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805; ADMIRALS; HERO worship; PATRIOTISM; SELF-sacrifice; PATRIOTIC literature; FRENCH war stories; SOUTHEY, Robert, 1774-1843
- Publication
Art History, 1983, Vol 6, Issue 3, p315
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8365.1983.tb00818.x