How Long to Read The Wake of Wellington

How Long Does it Take to Read The Wake of Wellington?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 26 minutes to read The Wake of Wellington by Peter W. Sinnema

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Soldier, hero, and politician, the Duke of Wellington is one of the best-known figures of nineteenth-century England. From his victory at Waterloo over Napoleon in 1815, he rose to become prime minister of his country. But Peter Sinnema finds equal fascination in Victorian England’s response to the duke’s death. The Wake of Wellington considers Wellington’s spectacular funeral pageant in the fall of 1852—an unprecedented event that attracted one and a half million spectators to London—as a threshold event against which the life of the soldier-hero and High Tory statesman could be re-viewed and represented. Canvassing a profuse and dramatically proliferating Wellingtoniana, Sinnema examines the various assumptions behind, and implications of, the Times’s celebrated claim that the Irish-born Wellington “was the very type and model of an Englishman.” The dead duke, as Sinnema demonstrates, was repeatedly caught up in interpretive practices that stressed the quasi-symbolic relations between hero and nation. The Wake of Wellington provides a unique view of how in death Wellington and his career were promoted as the consummation of a national destiny intimately bound up with Englishness itself, and with what it meant to be English at midcentury.

How long is The Wake of Wellington?

The Wake of Wellington by Peter W. Sinnema is 199 pages long, and a total of 51,541 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Wake of Wellington Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 41 minutes to read The Wake of Wellington aloud.

What Reading Level is The Wake of Wellington?

The Wake of Wellington is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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