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'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.
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Leading Nelson scholar 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 is introduced that 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 Nelson has evolved in the popular imagination during the two hundred years since his death. This includes an examination of visual 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.
The second part traces how Nelson has evolved in the popular imagination during the two hundred years since his death. This includes an examination of visual 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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A prerequisite for any serious Nelson student
13 Dec 2008
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This slim volume should be required reading for anyone interested in the historical Nelson as opposed to the mythologized one perpetuated by clueless novelists and irresponsible biographers alike. Dr. Czisnik reviews each of the major episodes in Nelson's career and subsequent treatments by historians and biographers, summarizing their disputes and controversies. In the second half of the book Czisnik explores the creation of the Nelson image in painting and print.
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