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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... literary modernist . Writers who were modernists , such figures as Virginia Woolf , D. H. Lawrence , James Joyce , and Marcel Proust , were not to be pictured conquering the Alps . One might say that Buchan was a literary antithesis to ...
... literary phenomenon . As told by Scott , but also by Stevenson and Buchan , that form breathed a nationalist ideology , but in Scotland itself that nationalism had an anomalous timetable of development . The period 1800-1920 was when ...
... literary criticism , and adventure , 103 literature conflict with adventure , 111 imperial , 115 playfulness and , 202 literature of dissent , 219 Little Women ( Alcott ) , 39 Livingstone , David , 90 Lloyd George , David , 82 Locke ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Adventure and Masculinity | 13 |
Adventure Manhood Citizenship | 17 |
Copyright | |
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