ABSTRACT
Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-century popular imperialism, traces their subsequent transformations and examines the way these identities are internalized and lived by men and boys.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Isoldier heroes, adventure and the historical imagining of masculinities
part II|2 pages
The hero-making and hagiography of Havelock of Lucknow
part III|2 pages
The public and private lives of T. E. Lawrence
chapter 7|17 pages
The Public And Private Lives Of T. E. Lawrence
The adventure hero and modernist masculinity
chapter 8|23 pages
Public Pathologies
T. E. Lawrence, psychological biography and the cultural politics of imperial decline
part IV|2 pages
Soldier heroes and the imagining of boyhood masculinity
