Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880–1915
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0754669017
ISBN-13
9780754669012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 2010
Print length
222 Pages
Weight
544 grams
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Making use of masculinity theories, this title focuses on Victorian and Edwardian adventure fiction. Beginning with works published in the 1880s, it engages tales involving initiation and rites of passage, experiences with the non-Western Other, colonial contexts and sexual encounters.
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.
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