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The British adventure heroindustrial gentlemanliness in text and image, 1870-1914 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The British adventure heroby Leo Hall.
Reminder of title:	industrial gentlemanliness in text and image, 1870-1914 /
Author:	Hall, Leo.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xix, 287 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Masculinity in literature.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89987-4
ISBN:	9783031899874$q(electronic bk.)

The British adventure heroindustrial gentlemanliness in text and image, 1870-1914 /
Hall, Leo.

The British adventure heroindustrial gentlemanliness in text and image, 1870-1914 /[electronic resource] :by Leo Hall. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xix, 287 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Illustrating the Adventure Story and Defining the Hero Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island 1883 and Edgar Rice Burroughss Tarzan of the Apes 1912 -- Chapter 3: Jules Vernes Around the World in Eighty Days 1873 and the industrialised mobility of the adventure hero -- Chapter 4: Arthur Conan Doyles The Lost World 1912 and the Equipment and Encounters of the Industrialised Gentleman Abroad.

"As richly enjoyable to read as the stories it is about, The British Adventure Hero greatly adds to our understanding of this widely read but under-researched genre. It makes a persuasive case for the importance of technology in the texts considered, and is as impressive in reading illustrations as writing." --Simon J. James, Department of English Studies, Durham University This book explores the construction of the fin-de-siècle adventure hero: set against a romanticised vision of the past and a nostalgic ideal of gentlemanliness, but also forward-looking in terms of forging a future for Britain through the imperialist dream. The British Adventure Hero offers a unique focus on how the adventure hero's masculinity is shaped by Victorian industrial, technological, and scientific developments, which influenced concepts of national identity both psychologically and physiologically. Central to exploring the relationship between the adventure hero and industrialisation are the original illustrations that were printed with the stories in periodicals and the first illustrated editions. This approach to studying the partnership between both text and illustrations demonstrates that the adventure story is a paradox: an outcome of invention, scientific, technological and industrial progress, yet also a supposed escape from nineteenth-century industrial modernity. The book traces this context through analysis of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883), Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912), Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), and Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes (1912). Significantly, the book also examines how these authors' perspectives on the idealised English identities of their heroes are informed by their Scottish, French, and American nationalities. Leo Hall is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at University of Chester, UK.

ISBN: 9783031899874$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-89987-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

179521
Masculinity in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR830.M365

Dewey Class. No.: 823.80935211

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