The Adventurous Male: Chapters in the History of the White Male MindIn this final volume of the trilogy on the theme of adventure begun with The Robinson Crusoe Story and Seven Types of Adventure Tale, Martin Green argues that Western civilization and culture have been inspired and characterized by the idea of adventure as much as by more famous ideas like democracy and justice. Green explores the dimensions of both individual and group or political forms of adventure, uncovering the presence of the adventure idea, and tracing its influence, in various kinds of cultural activity and ideology, from exploration, sports, and nationalistic activity to philosophy, politics, science, and economics. In most cases, he finds a cult of energy, risk, and heroism that answers to the excitement of those stories defined as adventures. Moreover, he demonstrates that the cult is linked to masculinity and certain virtues associated with men rather than women. The Adventurous Male will augment ongoing discussion and debate in the realms of both feminism and the men's movement. |
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... boys , were usually also adventures . They provided scenarios for games and amateur theatricals . We hear about Kipling as a boy playing at an adaption of Scott's The Pirate while staying with his Burne - Jones relatives . It was in the ...
... boys who answered , 223 said their favorite author was Dickens , 179 said W.H.G. Kingston ( a boys ' author ) , 128 said Scott , 114 said Verne , 102 said Marryat , and so on . Among the favorite single books read by boys , Robinson ...
... boys and told them adventure tales under the name of biblical stories . The Boys ' Brigade aimed to promote " all that tends towards true Christian Manliness . " 16 What did not so tend , among religious institu- tions ? The most ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Adventure and Masculinity | 13 |
Adventure Manhood Citizenship | 17 |
Copyright | |
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