Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of MasculinitiesSoldier 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. |
Contents
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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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adventure hero adventure narrative adventure quest Allenby anxieties Arab Arab Revolt army become Bedouin biographies boys Britain Cawnpore Chapter character Christian colonial composure conflict contradictions cultural forms cultural imaginaries death defence depressive position Deraa desert desire developed domestic Empire enemy England English example excitement explore Falklands War Falklands-Malvinas War fantasies femininity fiction figure film gender Harmondsworth heroic image History Hornblower ibid idealized identification imagos imperial India interest internal world introjection kind Klein Kleinian landscape Lawrence of Arabia Lawrence's legend lives Lucknow Marshman masculinity memory military modern motifs Nana Sahib national identity phantasy play political popular position possible produced projective psychic Psychoanalysis qualities quest Rebellion recognition relations reparation romance Routledge Second World War sense Seven Pillars sexual significance Sir Henry Havelock social world soldier hero splitting story structure super-ego T. E. Lawrence Thomas Thomas's traditional University Press Victorian Waverley Waverley's women