Behold the Hero
General Wolfe and the Arts in the Eighteenth Century
Art
Modern History
Alan McNairn
Liverpool University Press 1997
Hardback 306 pages Illustrated 
0853237328 | 9780853237327 |  Product code: 30670  
Telling the 'story of Wolfe's life after death', McNairn analyses representations of General James Wolfe in both popular culture and high art, from mass produced mugs to Benjamin West's great painting, and from popular songs to the writings of Goldsmith, Walpole and Cowper. He argues that Wolfe became the embodiment of British patriotism, and that the multitude of artistic and literary works about his death in the hour of victory at Quebec were created at a time when legends of inspiring, politically persuasive heroics were much in demand.
 
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