Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800: Case by Barbara Korte,Stefanie Lethbridge

By Barbara Korte,Stefanie Lethbridge

This e-book is ready the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature given that round 1800. It lines an important phases of this illustration but in addition contains strands which have been marginalised or silenced in a dominant masculine and higher-class framework - the reports comprise explorations of woman models of the heroic, they usually think about working-class and ethnic views. The chapters during this quantity each one specialize in a sought after conjuncture of texts, histories and methods to the heroic. Taken jointly, they current an summary of the ‘literary heroic’ in fiction because the past due eighteenth century. 

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