Soldier heroes
Subtitle: British adventure, empire, and the imagining of masculinities
By: Graham Dawson.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Adventure stories, English -- History and criticism.; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; War stories, English -- History and criticism.; Masculinity in literature.; Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain.; Imperialism in literature.; Soldiers in literature.; Heroes in literature.; Men in literature.
Description: Soldier 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-336) and index.