Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities

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Summary

eventually relates the soldier hero discourse to psychoanalytic concepts of pleasure, fablation, phantasy, and memory.

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Introduction: Soldier Heroes, Masculinity and British National Identity
Soldier Heroes, Adventure and the historical IMagining of Masculinities
Soldier Heroes and the Narrative Imagining of masculinities
Masculinity, Phantasy and History
The Adventure Quest and Its Cultural Imaginaries
The hero-Making and Hagiography of havelock of Lucknow: Imperialism and Military Adventure in the Nineteeth Century
The Imagining of a hero: Sir Henry Havelock, the Indian Rebellion and the News
Commemorating the Exemplary Life: the Havelock Hagiography
The Public and Private Lives of T.E. Lawrence: The Imperial Adventure in the Modern World
The Blond Bedouin: Lawrence of Arabia and Imperial Adventure in the Modern World
The Public and Private Lives of T.E. Lawrence: The Adventure hero and modernist Masculinity
Public Pathologies: T.E. Lawrence, Psychological Biography and the Cultural Politics of Imperial Decline
Soldier Heroes and the Imagining of Boyhood Masculinity
Playing at War: Boyhood Phantasies and the Pleasure-Culture of War
Self -Imagining: Boyhood Masculinity, Social Recognition and the Adventure Hero Afterword: Soldier heroes and Cultural Politics of Reparation
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