Dead Certainties

Description:

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.

subjects: Death and burial,  Death,  Biographies,  Histoire,  Aspect social,  Mort et sépulture,  Mort,  Moorden,  Biography,  History,  Boston (mass.), biography,  Death, social aspects,  Parkman, francis, 1823-1893,  Parkman, george, 1790-1849,  Historiography,  Trials (Homicide),  Social aspects,  Fallstudiensammlung,  Social aspects of Death,  Mort - Aspect social - Massachusetts - Boston - Histoire,  Geschichtsbild,  Geschichtsklitterung,  Tod,  Rezeption,  Mort et se pulture,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Wolfe, james, 1727-1759

People: George Parkman,  James Wolfe (1727-1759),  John W. Webster,  Francis Parkman (1823-1893),  George Parkman (1790-1849)

Places: Boston,  Massachusetts,  Boston (Mass.),  Great Britain