id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_pi6aoxhgp5ey5ln3esdhdnmhem Martha F. Bowden Horatio the Hero: The Depiction of Horatio Nelson in Contemporary Historical Fiction 2010 15 .pdf application/pdf 6270 376 69 "Horatio the Hero: The Depiction of Horatio Nelson in Contemporary Historical Fiction" "Horatio the Hero: The Depiction of Horatio Nelson in Contemporary Historical Fiction" Horatio, Lord Nelson, continues to be one of the great heroes of England events in his life, however, rendered him a flawed hero: his involvement in the tribunal in the Bay of Naples in 1799, after the short-lived Nelson by the time he became the Hero of the Nile (blind in one eye, 3 Jocelyn Harris, "'Domestic Virtues and National Importance': Lord Nelson, Captain Wentworth, and the English Napoleonic War Hero," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 19 (2006-7): 202. Nelson's absence from a critical twentieth-century novel paradoxically underlines his importance as an English hero. "who, as a young midshipman, had shot the man w h o shot Lord Nelson." The Rivers family has gloried in the connection ever since, even David Donachie's Nelson and Emma trilogy, unlike the O'Brian ./cache/work_pi6aoxhgp5ey5ln3esdhdnmhem.pdf ./txt/work_pi6aoxhgp5ey5ln3esdhdnmhem.txt