Overview
- Maps the way in which the figure of the hero has changed in British fiction since the 1800s
- Examines a wide range of materials, from lesser-known texts to canonical, widely-studied texts
- Maintains a broad historical scope
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stefanie Lethbridge is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is member of the university’s collaborative research centre on ‘Heroes, Heroisation and Heroisms’. She has published on British poetry anthologies since the Renaissance, on eighteenth-century and Victorian print culture, on sensation fiction and on representations of the heroic in popular culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800
Book Subtitle: Case Studies
Editors: Barbara Korte, Stefanie Lethbridge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33557-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33556-8Published: 16 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81546-6Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33557-5Published: 09 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 206
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature