Napoleon
Passion, Death and Resurrection 1815-1840
1st Edition
Published on 19. April 2018
416 pages
978-1-4088-9174-2 (ISBN)
Description
'Vibrant and illuminating ... [Dywer] tells a fascinating tale' The Times
'Refreshing scholarship ... Energetic, readable and filled with colourful detail ... Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection is a thoroughly enjoyable book which divides well the reality of exile from the legend that sprang from it' Literary Review
This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner on the island of St Helena. This may have been a great fall from power, but Napoleon still held immense attraction. Every day, huge crowds would gather on the far shore in the hope of catching a glimpse of him.
Philip Dwyer closes his ambitious trilogy exploring Napoleon's life, legacy and myth by moving from those first months of imprisonment, through the years of exile, up to death and then beyond, examining how the foundations of legend that had been laid by Napoleon during his lifetime continued to be built upon by his followers. This is a fitting and authoritative end to a definitive work.
'Refreshing scholarship ... Energetic, readable and filled with colourful detail ... Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection is a thoroughly enjoyable book which divides well the reality of exile from the legend that sprang from it' Literary Review
This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner on the island of St Helena. This may have been a great fall from power, but Napoleon still held immense attraction. Every day, huge crowds would gather on the far shore in the hope of catching a glimpse of him.
Philip Dwyer closes his ambitious trilogy exploring Napoleon's life, legacy and myth by moving from those first months of imprisonment, through the years of exile, up to death and then beyond, examining how the foundations of legend that had been laid by Napoleon during his lifetime continued to be built upon by his followers. This is a fitting and authoritative end to a definitive work.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
2 x 8 page colour plate sections
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-9174-2 (9781408891742)
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Philip Dwyer studied in Perth (Australia), Berlin and Paris, where he was a student of France's pre-eminent Napoleonic scholar, Jean Tulard. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, and is Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Content
- Cover
- A Note on the Author
- Dedication
- By the Same Author
- Title Page
- Contents
- Map
- Epigraph
- EXILE: 1815
- 1 The Fallen Hero
- 'We Have Got Bonaparte'
- Napoleomania
- The Black Legend
- 'A Mood of Recrimination'
- 'The Place in the World Best Calculated for Confinement'
- The Chosen Few
- 'I Do Not Voluntarily Go'
- 2 Golgotha
- The Passage
- The Recollections Begin
- 'The First Link in the Chain'
- The Briars as Earthly Paradise
- 'Dignity Oppressed by Force' - Longwood
- PASSION: 1816-1821
- 3 Staging the Passion
- Hudson Lowe - 'Unreasonable and Unjust'
- The Allied Commissioners
- Letters from St Helena
- 'The Face of a Hyena Caught in a Trap'
- 'The Greatest Gluttons and Epicures I Ever Saw'
- 'The Little Luxuries That Were Denied Him'
- Crown of Thorns
- 4 'Longwood has Become Unbearable'
- Bonapartists and Plots of Escape
- Rumours and Sightings
- Barry O'Meara - 'Between the Anvil and the Hammer'
- Forsaken
- Las Cases' Betrayal
- Gourgaud as Jealous Lover
- The Servants
- Albine
- Napoleon's Doctors and Lowe's Paranoia
- DEATH: 1821
- 5 The Last Stations of the Cross
- 'A Strong Disposition towards Seclusion'
- Decline
- 'I Would Like to Die: I am Not Afraid of Death'
- Deliverance
- The Body Made Public
- Burial
- The Exiles Depart
- 6 Mourning from Afar
- 'He is not Dead'
- 'Only Death Proved that He Was Mortal'
- 'Napoleon Has Died of Poison'
- The Poem and the Image
- 'He Will Return When He Likes'
- REDEMPTION: 1821-1840
- 7 Voices from Beyond the Grave
- Shaping the Past, Constructing the Future
- O'Meara's Napoleon
- The Bonapartist Bible - Las Cases' mémorial
- The Saviour of the Revolution
- The Supreme Commander
- Napoleon on the Couch
- Writing Napoleon
- The Melancholy Hero
- 8 Contextualising the Cult
- A France Divided
- Sites of Contestation
- The Commercialisation of Memory
- Singing Napoleon
- The Three Glorious Days
- Staging Napoleon
- Picturing Napoleon
- Louis-Philippe and the Official Cult
- A Particular Vision of Napoleon
- The Vendôme Column
- The Arc de Triomphe
- The Museum of the History of France
- THE RETURN: 1840
- 9 Resurrection
- Adolphe Thiers and Napoleon's Remains
- 'Blowing on the Sparks'
- The Final Resting Place
- 'As If He Were Asleep': Exhumation
- 10 The Second Coming
- The Return of the Messiah
- Limiting Popular Participation
- Reading the Crowd
- The Meaning of the Procession
- Transmogrification
- The Ghost of Napoleon
- Epilogue
- 'That Bugger Bonaparte the First'
- The Christ of Modern Times
- Napoleon the Great?
- Notes
- Picture Credits
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Plate Section
- Advert Page
- Copyright Page
