Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880–1915 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880–1915 write by Joseph A. Kestner. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880–1915 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Making use of recent masculinity theories, Joseph A. Kestner sheds new light on Victorian and Edwardian adventure fiction. Beginning with works published in the 1880s, when writers like H. Rider Haggard took inspiration from the First Boer War and the Zulu War, Kestner engages tales involving initiation and rites of passage, experiences with the non-Western Other, colonial contexts, and sexual encounters. Canonical authors such as R.L. Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, and Olive Schreiner are examined alongside popular writers like A.E.W. Mason, W.H. Hudson and John Buchan, providing an expansive picture of the crisis of masculinity that pervades adventure texts during the period.
Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880-1915
Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880-1915 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880-1915 write by Joseph A. Kestner. This book was released on 2010. Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880-1915 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Morality and the Law in British Detective and Spy Fiction, 1880-1920
Morality and the Law in British Detective and Spy Fiction, 1880-1920 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morality and the Law in British Detective and Spy Fiction, 1880-1920 write by Kate Morrison. This book was released on 2020-05-08. Morality and the Law in British Detective and Spy Fiction, 1880-1920 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who decides what is right or wrong, ethical or immoral, just or unjust? In the world of crime and spy fiction between 1880 and 1920, the boundaries of the law were blurred and justice called into question humanity's moral code. As fictional detectives mutated into spies near the turn of the century, the waning influence of morality on decision-making signaled a shift in behavior from idealistic principles towards a pragmatic outlook taken in the national interest. Taking a fresh approach to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's popular protagonist, Sherlock Holmes, this book examines how Holmes and his rival maverick literary detectives and spies manipulated the law to deliver a fairer form of justice than that ordained by parliament. Multidisciplinary, this work views detective fiction through the lenses of law, moral philosophy, and history, and incorporates issues of gender, equality, and race. By studying popular publications of the time, it provides a glimpse into public attitudes towards crime and morality and how those shifting opinions helped reconstruct the hero in a new image.
War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction
War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction write by Susan L. Austin. This book was released on 2023-05-23. War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction' explores the masculinities represented in British works spanning more than a century. Studies of Rudyard Kipling’s 'The Light That Failed' (1891) and Erskine Childer’s 'The Riddle of the Sands' (1903) investigate masculinities from before World War I, at the height of the British Empire. A discussion of R.C. Sherriff’s play 'Journey’s End' takes readers to the battlefields of World War I, where duty and the harsh realities of modern warfare require men to perform, perhaps to die, perhaps to be unmanned by shellshock. From there we see how Dorothy Sayers developed the character of Peter Wimsey as a model of masculinity, both strong and successful despite his own shellshock in the years between the world wars. Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter (1948) and The Quiet American (1955) show masculinities shaken and questioning their roles and their country’s after neither world war ended all wars and the Empire rapidly lost ground. Two chapters on 'The Innocent' (1990), Ian McEwan’s fictional account of a real collaboration between Great Britain and the United States to build a tunnel that would allow them to spy on the Soviet Union, dig deeply into the 1950’s Cold War to examine the fictional masculinity of the British protagonist and the real world and fictional masculinities projected by the countries involved. Explorations of Ian Fleming’s 'Casino Royale' (1953) and 'The Living Daylights' (1962) continue the Cold War theme. Discussion of the latter film shows a confident, infallible masculinity, optimistic at the prospect of glasnost and the potential end of Cold War hostilities. John le Carré’s 'The Night Manager' (1993) and its television adaptation take espionage past the Cold War. The final chapter on Ian McEwan’s 'Saturday' (2005) shows one man’s reaction to 9/11.
Empires of Print
Empires of Print - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires of Print write by Patrick Scott Belk. This book was released on 2017-05-08. Empires of Print available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the turn of the twentieth century, the publishing industries in Britain and the United States underwent dramatic expansions and reorganization that brought about an increased traffic in books and periodicals around the world. Focusing on adventure fiction published from 1899 to 1919, Patrick Scott Belk looks at authors such as Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, and John Buchan to explore how writers of popular fiction engaged with foreign markets and readers through periodical publishing. Belk argues that popular fiction, particularly the adventure genre, developed in ways that directly correlate with authors’ experiences, and shows that popular genres of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emerged as one way of marketing their literary works to expanding audiences of readers worldwide. Despite an over-determined print space altered by the rise of new kinds of consumers and transformations of accepted habits of reading, publishing, and writing, the changes in British and American publishing at the turn of the twentieth century inspired an exciting new period of literary invention and experimentation in the adventure genre, and the greater part of that invention and experimentation was happening in the magazines.
