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But there’s another heritage of war that time has obscured: the failures to remember, the ambivalent erasures of war, and the anti-heroic memorial culture that thrived in politically progressive circles during and after the wars. Although one legacy of the wars is a patriotic myth of England’s martial preparedness embodied in monuments to the likes of Wellington and Nelson, this dissertation will argue that our modern conceptions of Britain’s national heritage are dependent upon a different legacy: the Romantic-era critiques of literary radicals against public war memorials. The intellectual roots of heritage consciousness in Britain run through literature that changed the way that Britons remembered the loss occasioned by war. 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Although one legacy of the wars is a patriotic myth of England’s martial preparedness embodied in monuments to the likes of Wellington and Nelson, this dissertation will argue that our modern conceptions of Britain’s national heritage are dependent upon a different legacy: the Romantic-era critiques of literary radicals against public war memorials. The intellectual roots of heritage consciousness in Britain run through literature that changed the way that Britons remembered the loss occasioned by war. 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