| Description |
xii, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Soldier heroes, masculinity and British national identity -- Pt. I. Soldier heroes, adventure and the historical imagining of masculinities. 1. Soldier Heroes and the Narrative Imagining of Masculinities. 2. Masculinity, Phantasy and History. 3. The Adventure Quest and Its Cultural Imaginaries -- Pt. II. The hero-making and hagiography of Havelock of Lucknow: Imperialism and military adventure in the nineteenth century. 4. The Imagining of a Hero: Sir Henry Havelock, the Indian Rebellion and the News. 5. Commemorating the Exemplary Life: The Havelock Hagiography -- Pt. III. The public and private lives of T. E. Lawrence: The imperial adventure hero in the modern world. 6. The Blond Bedouin: Lawrence of Arabia and Imperial Adventure in the Modern World. 7. The Public and Private Lives of T. E. Lawrence: The Adventure Hero and Modernist Masculinity. 8. Public Pathologies: T. E. Lawrence, Psychological Biography and the Cultural Politics of Imperial Decline |
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Pt. IV. Soldier heroes and the imagining of boyhood masculinity. 9. Playing at Soldiers: Boyhood Phantasies and the Pleasure-Culture of War. 10. Self-Imagining: Boyhood Masculinity, Social Recognition and the Adventure Hero -- Afterword: Soldier heroes and the cultural politics of reparation |
| Summary |
Soldier heroes of the modern world have proved potent images of Britishness and the masculine. Soldier Heroes presents a ground-breaking exploration of the imagining of masculinities in adventure stories. Its analyses range across biographies and news reports, novels and play fantasies. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and psychoanalysis, it traces a history of British heroic masculinities from nineteenth-century imperialism to the present, and examines their internalization in the lived identities of men and boys |
| Analysis |
Military life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-336) and index |
| Subject |
Adventure stories, English -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Heroes in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Men in literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain.
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Soldiers in literature.
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War stories, English -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
94001523 |
| ISBN |
041508881X (hbk.) |
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0415088828 (paperback) |
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