Title: Soldier heroes
First published: 1994
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.
Subjects: Adventure stories, English, English Adventure stories, English War stories, English literature, Heroes in literature, History and criticism, Imperialism in literature, Masculinity in literature, Men in literature, Psychoanalysis and literature, Soldiers in literature, War stories, English, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Masculinity, Littérature anglaise, Histoire et critique, Récits de guerre anglais, Masculinité dans la littérature, Psychanalyse et littérature, Impérialisme dans la littérature, Héros dans la littérature, Hommes dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Kolonialismus, Männlichkeit, Literatur, Männlichkeitskult, Soldat, Heroismus, Imperialismus, Soldaten, Helden (personen), Imperialisme, Mannelijkheid, Literatura inglesa (historia e critica), Literatura e arte (psicologia)
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century
LC classification: PR468.A29 D39 1994