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`This is an innovative and challenging study of popular fantasies of masculinity in the epoch of modern British imperialism. Rich and provocatively written, it is always a compelling read.' - Sally Alexander, University of East London
`A major advance in the theorization of masculinity and the analysis of its historical forms ... lucid, stylish and eloquent, the book is an important contribution to cultural analysis and to the long-awaited rapprochement of historical and psychoanalytic understandings.' - Tony Davies, University of Birmingham
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Presents a ground-breaking exploration of the imagining of masculinities in adventure stories, considering such great hero-figures as T.E. Lawrence and Henry Havelock. It traces a history from nineteenth century imperialism to the present
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`This is an innovative and challenging study of popular fantasies of masculinity in the epoch of modern British imperialism. Rich and provocatively written, it is always a compelling read.' - Sally Alexander, University of East London
`A major advance in the theorization of masculinity and the analysis of its historical forms ... lucid, stylish and eloquent, the book is an important contribution to cultural analysis and to the long-awaited rapprochement of historical and psychoanalytic understandings.' - Tony Davies, University of Birmingham
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Presents a ground-breaking exploration of the imagining of masculinities in adventure stories, considering such great hero-figures as T.E. Lawrence and Henry Havelock. It traces a history from nineteenth century imperialism to the present
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Within nationalist discourse, narratives about soldier heroes are both under-pinned by, and powerfully reproduce, conceptions of gender and nation as unchanging essences. Read the first page
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Within nationalist discourse, narratives about soldier heroes are both under-pinned by, and powerfully reproduce, conceptions of gender and nation as unchanging essences. Read the first page
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