Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities

Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities
ISBN-10
1135089515
ISBN-13
9781135089511
Category
Art
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2013-05-13
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Graham Dawson

Description

Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-century popular imperialism, traces their subsequent transformations and examines the way these identities are internalized and lived by men and boys.

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