Soldier heroes : British adventure, empire and the imagining of masculinities

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The work Soldier heroes : British adventure, empire and the imagining of masculinities represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Soldier heroes : British adventure, empire and the imagining of masculinities

Title remainder

British adventure, empire and the imagining of masculinities

Statement of responsibility

Graham Dawson

Creator

• Dawson, Graham, 1956-
• Dawson, Graham, 1956-

Subject

• English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Great Britain, Army
• Heroes in literature
• Imperialism in literature
• Adventure stories, English -- History and criticism
• Men in literature
• Psychoanalysis and literature
• Soldiers in literature
• War stories, English -- History and criticism
• Masculinity (Psychology) in literature
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PR468.A29

LC item number

D39 1994

Literary form

non fiction