Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880 1915 by Kestner, Joseph A.

Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880 1915 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138262218)

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Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880 1915 by Kestner, Joseph A.

Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880 1915

$64.95
Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880 1915 by Kestner, Joseph A.

Masculinities in British Adventure Fiction, 1880 1915

$64.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Joseph A. Kestner
ISBN-10: 1138262218
ISBN-13: 9781138262218
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2016
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d
By Joseph A. Kestner
By Joseph A. Kestner
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Author of seven monographs, Joseph A. Kestner is McFarlin Professor of English and Chair of Film Studies at the University of Tulsa, where he specializes in masculinity theory and Victorian and Edwardian studies.

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