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Korte, Barbara.

Heroes and heroism in British fiction since 1800case studies /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Heroes and heroism in British fiction since 1800edited by Barbara Korte, Stefanie Lethbridge.
Reminder of title:	case studies /
other author:	Korte, Barbara.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	xiii, 206 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	English fictionHistory and criticism.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33557-5
ISBN:	9783319335575$q(electronic bk.)

Heroes and heroism in British fiction since 1800case studies /
Heroes and heroism in British fiction since 1800case studies /[electronic resource] :edited by Barbara Korte, Stefanie Lethbridge. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xiii, 206 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Introduction: Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction - Concepts and Conjunctures; Barbara Korte and Stefanie Lethbridge -- 2. Negotiating Modernity: Heroes and Heroines in Gothic and Sensation Fiction of the Long Nineteenth Century; Stefanie Lethbridge -- 3. Potentially the Noble Creature? Picturing Heroism in Henry Rider Haggard's She; Alison E. Martin -- 4. The Fate of Heroism after Industrialisation: The Working-Class Male in the British Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel and Beyond; Ralf Schneider -- 5. Death of the Hero? Heroism in British Fiction of the First World War; Ann-Marie Einhaus -- 6. "A Courage Steadfast, Luminous": Christopher Caudwell and the Communist Hero; Anindya Raychaudhuri -- 7. Unspeakable Heroism: The Second World War and the End of the Hero; Lucy Hall and Gill Plain -- 8. Constructing and Deconstructing the Fantasy Hero: Joe Abercrombie's "First Law" Trilogy; Jochen Petzold -- 9. An Unlikely Hero for the War-on-Terror Decade: Patrick Neate's City of Tiny Lights; Nicole Falkenhayner -- 10. The Heroic in British Young Adult Fiction: Traditions and Renegotiations; Kristina Sperlich -- 11. Victims and Heroes Get all Mixed Up: Gender and Agency in the Thriller; Barbara Korte -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of this representation but also includes strands that have been marginalised or silenced in a dominant masculine and higher-class framework - the studies include explorations of female versions of the heroic, and they consider working-class and ethnic perspectives. The chapters in this volume each focus on a prominent conjuncture of texts, histories and approaches to the heroic. Taken together, they present an overview of the 'literary heroic' in fiction since the late eighteenth century.

ISBN: 9783319335575$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-33557-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

175765
English fiction
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PR830.H4 / H47 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 823.009353

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