![]() ![]() Then comes the story of a more obscure death - the alleged murder of George Parkman, uncle of the historian, at the hands of George Parkman's friend and debtor, George Webster. ![]() Relying on much primary source material, Schama tersely narrates the death of Wolfe from three perspectives that of an eyewitness, that of fashionable painter Benjamin West (whose portrayal of Wolfe's death was less influenced by a concern for verisimilitude than by a desire to emulate classical models), and that of historian Francis Parkman (who, the author shows, tended to invest Wolfe with his own nervous sensibility and high-strung qualities). ![]() ![]() History/Harvard) compellingly re-creates two historic deaths, both linked to the Parkman dynasty of Boston, by these contrasting re-creations and explores "the teasing gap separating a lived event and its subsequent narration." The first narrative is of the death of General James Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham during the historic Battle of Quebec. ![]()
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