Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Weinstein, Iris
2. Littrell, Kandy

Description

1. 333 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color); 20 cm

Summary

1. An experiment in historical narration: two true "tales"--Each involving a violent death, each linked to a great, tragic Boston dynasty, that of General James Wolfe, killed at the battle of Quebec in 1759 and the second, the death of George Parkman, eccentric Boston luminary. Both tales are linked by the fate of the dynasty of the Parkmans of Boston and by Schama's sense of the irrecoverable distance between events and their narration, of the death of certainty--Jacket.

Subject

1. Death > Social aspects
2. Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
3. Parkman, George, 1790-1849
4. History
5. Fallstudiensammlung
6. Massachusetts > Boston
7. Wolfe, James, 1727-1759 > Death and burial
8. Parkman, George, 1790-1849 > Death and burial
9. Death > Social aspects > Massachusetts > Boston > History
10. Boston (Mass.) > Biography
11. Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893 > Death and burial
12. Biographies

Genre/Form

1. Biographies.
2. History.

Contents

1. The many deaths of General Wolfe. At the face of the cliff -- In command -- Deep in the forest -- On the heights of Abraham -- Death of a Harvard man. Honest sweat: the blacksmith's son -- Income: the pedestrian -- Enterprise: the janitor -- Debt: skyrocket Jack -- Taking stock: the prisoner and the public -- Accounts rendered: lawyers, doctors and other solid citizens -- Payment pending: the press, the preachers and the prisoner -- Settlements: the legatees.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-333).