Masculinities in British adventure fiction, 1880-1915
By: Joseph A. Kestner.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754669012; 9780754695943
Subjects: Adventure stories, English -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Imperialism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Voyaging. Stevenson: Treasure Island (1883); Kipling: Captains courageous (1897); Conrad: Youth (1898), Typhoon (1902); Childers: The riddle of the sands (1903); Conrad: The secret sharer (1910); title: 2. Mapping. Haggard: King Solomon's mines (1885); Allan Quatermain (1887); Kipling: The man who would be king (1888); The light that failed (1891); Stevenson/Osbourne: The ebb-tide (1894); Schreiner: Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland; title: 3. Invading. Conrad: An outpost of progress (1897); Heart of darkness (1899); Mason: The four feathers (1902); Hudson: Green mansions (1904); Buchan: Prester John (1910); Conrad: The shadow-line (1915; 1917); title: 4. Loving. Haggard: She (1887); Stevenson: The beach of Falesá (1892); Hope: The prisoner of Zenda (1894); Stacpoole: The blue lagoon (1908); Conrad: A smile of fortune (1911); The planter of Malata (1914).