Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire, and the Imagining of MasculinitiesSoldier 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. |
Contents
Soldier heroes adventure and the historical | 9 |
MASCULINITY PHANTASY AND HISTORY | 27 |
THE ADVENTURE QUEST AND ITS CULTURAL | 53 |
SIR HENRY HAVELOCK | 79 |
T E LAWRENCE | 208 |
BOYHOOD PHANTASIES | 233 |
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