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  1. Victorian quest romance
    Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling, and Conan Doyle
    Author: Fraser, Robert
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Northcote House, in association with the British Council, Plymouth, U.K.

    This book interprets the quest romances of Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle in the light of Victorian debates about buried human pasts more

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    This book interprets the quest romances of Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle in the light of Victorian debates about buried human pasts

     
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  2. Victorian coral islands of empire, mission, and the boys' adventure novel
    Author: Elleray, Michelle Dawne
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    "Attending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of... more

     

    "Attending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R.M. Ballantyne and W.H.G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children's textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British presence in imperial spaces as a moral imperative, our understanding of the "adventurer" is transformed from the plucky explorer to the cynical mercenary through Robert Louis Stevenson, who provides a late-nineteenth-century critique of the imperial and missionary assumptions that subtended the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel of his youth"--

     
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  3. Masculinity in children's animal stories
    1888 - 1928 ; a critical study of anthropomorphic tales by Wilde, Kipling, Potter, Grahame and Milne
    Author: Yarbrough, Wynn William
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

    "This critical book examines the performance of masculinity in these stories, particularly in light of the waning years of Victoria's reign when changing historical, political and social pressures altered the definition of masculinity. Topics covered... more

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    "This critical book examines the performance of masculinity in these stories, particularly in light of the waning years of Victoria's reign when changing historical, political and social pressures altered the definition of masculinity. Topics covered include the roles of violence, rebellion, escape, spirituality, social hierarchies and law"--Provided by publisher

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780786459438; 0786459433
    RVK Categories: EC 8506 ; HG 729
    Subjects: Children's stories, English / History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Animals in literature; Anthropomorphism in literature; Adventure stories, English / History and criticism; Anthropomorphismus; Englisch; Männlichkeit <Motiv>; Kinderliteratur
    Scope: v, 189 S., 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: Play's the thing -- Adventures, escapes and violence -- Aestheticism, Christianity and spirituality: masculinity in flux -- Reputation, hierarchy, masculine logic, law and codes -- Collaboration, compromise, group performances -- Conclusion: The hidden, the subversive, the traditional
  4. Masculinity in children's animal stories
    1888 - 1928 ; a critical study of anthropomorphic tales by Wilde, Kipling, Potter, Grahame and Milne
    Author: Yarbrough, Wynn William
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

    "This critical book examines the performance of masculinity in these stories, particularly in light of the waning years of Victoria's reign when changing historical, political and social pressures altered the definition of masculinity. Topics covered... more

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    "This critical book examines the performance of masculinity in these stories, particularly in light of the waning years of Victoria's reign when changing historical, political and social pressures altered the definition of masculinity. Topics covered include the roles of violence, rebellion, escape, spirituality, social hierarchies and law"--Provided by publisher

     
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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780786459438; 0786459433
    RVK Categories: EC 8506 ; HG 729
    Subjects: Children's stories, English / History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Animals in literature; Anthropomorphism in literature; Adventure stories, English / History and criticism; Anthropomorphismus; Englisch; Männlichkeit <Motiv>; Kinderliteratur
    Scope: v, 189 S., 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: Play's the thing -- Adventures, escapes and violence -- Aestheticism, Christianity and spirituality: masculinity in flux -- Reputation, hierarchy, masculine logic, law and codes -- Collaboration, compromise, group performances -- Conclusion: The hidden, the subversive, the traditional
  5. Transatlantic stories and the history of reading, 1720-1810
    migrant fictions
    Author: Bannet, Eve Tavor
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; Madrid ; Cape Town ; Singapore ; São Paulo ; Delhi ; Tokyo ; Mexico City

    Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed... more

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    Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of transatlantic print culture. Stories include the 'other' Robinson Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler, Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt

     
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  6. Empire and the animal body
    violence, identity and ecology in Victorian adventure fiction
    Author: Miller, John
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Anthem Press, London

    ‘Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction’ develops recent work in animal studies, eco-criticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure... more

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    ‘Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction’ develops recent work in animal studies, eco-criticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature. Depictions of violence against animals were integral to the ideology of adventure literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the evolutionary hierarchies on which such texts relied were complicated by developing environmental sensitivities and reimaginings of human selfhood in relation to animal others. As these texts hankered after increasingly imperilled areas of wilderness, the border between human and animal appeared tense, ambivalent and problematic

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780857285492
    RVK Categories: HL 1101 ; HL 1319
    Subjects: English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; Adventure stories, English / History and criticism; Animals in literature; Ecocriticism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Ecology in literature; Abenteuerliteratur; Englisch; Wildtiere <Motiv>
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    Otherness and order -- Scientists and specimens -- The animal within -- Wild men and wilderness
  7. Joseph Conrad and the adventure tradition
    constructing and deconstructing the imperial subject
    Author: White, Andrea
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Nineteenth-century adventure fiction relating to the British empire usually served to promote, celebrate and justify the imperial project, asserting the essential and privileging difference between 'us' and 'them', colonizing and colonized. Andrea... more

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    Nineteenth-century adventure fiction relating to the British empire usually served to promote, celebrate and justify the imperial project, asserting the essential and privileging difference between 'us' and 'them', colonizing and colonized. Andrea White's study opens with an examination of popular exploration literature in relation to later adventure stories, showing how a shared view of the white man in the tropics authorized the European intrusion into other lands. She then sets the fiction of Joseph Conrad in this context, showing how Conrad in fact demythologized and disrupted the imperial subject constructed in earlier writing, by simultaneously - with the modernist's double vision - admiring man's capacity to dream but applauding the desire to condemn many of its consequences. She argues that the very complexity of Conrad's work provided an alternative, and more critical, means of evaluating the experience of empire

     
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    ISBN: 9780511519277
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    RVK Categories: HM 2335
    Subjects: Adventure stories, English / History and criticism; Political fiction, English / History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Kolonialismus; Imperialismus; Abenteuerliteratur
    Other subjects: Conrad, Joseph / 1857-1924 / Criticism and interpretation; Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
    Scope: 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages)
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    Constructing the imperial subject : nineteenth-century travel writing -- Adventure fiction : a special case -- Them and us : a useful and appealing fiction -- The shift toward subversion : the case of H. Rider Haggard -- Travel writing and adventure fiction as shaping discourses for Conrad -- Almayer's folly -- An outcast of the islands -- The African fictions (I) : "An outpost of progress" -- The African fictions (II) : "Heart of darkness."
  8. Writing the colonial adventure
    race, gender, and nation in Anglo-Australian popular fiction, 1875-1914
    Author: Dixon, Robert
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    This book is an exploration of popular late nineteenth-century texts that show Australia - along with Africa, India and the Pacific Islands - to be a preferred site of imperial adventure. Focusing on the period from the advent of the new imperialism... more

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    This book is an exploration of popular late nineteenth-century texts that show Australia - along with Africa, India and the Pacific Islands - to be a preferred site of imperial adventure. Focusing on the period from the advent of the new imperialism in the 1870s to the outbreak of World War I, Robert Dixon looks at a selection of British and Australian writers. Their books, he argues, offer insights into the construction of empire, masculinity, race, and Australian nationhood and identity. Writing the Colonial Adventure shows that the genre of adventure/romance was highly popular throughout this period. The book examines the variety of themes within their narrative form that captured many aspects of imperial ideology. In considering the broader ramifications of these works, Professor Dixon develops an original approach to popular fiction, both for its own sake and as a mode of cultural history

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781139085038
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    RVK Categories: HL 1331 ; HQ 1035 ; HQ 1040
    Subjects: Adventure stories, English / History and criticism; Popular literature / Great Britain / History and criticism; English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Adventure stories, Australian / History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Imperialism in literature; Nationalism in literature; Colonies in literature; Sex role in literature; Race in literature; Literatur; Kolonialismus <Motiv>; Kolonialismus
    Scope: 1 online resource (x, 228 pages)
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    1. The Romance of Property: Rolf Boldrewood and Walter Scott -- 2. Outlaws and Lawmakers: Boldrewood, Praed and the ethics of adventure -- 3. Israel in Egypt: The significance of Australian captivity narratives -- 4. Imperial Romance: King Solomon's Mines and Australian romance -- 5. The New Woman and the Coming Man: Gender and genre in the 'lost-race' romance -- 6. The Other World: Rosa Praed's occult fiction -- 7. The Boundaries of Civility: Australia, Asia and the Pacific -- 8. Imagined Invasions: The Lone Hand and narratives of Asiatic invasion -- 9. The Colonial City: Crime fiction and empire -- 10. Beyond Adventure: Louis Becke
  9. Modernism, romance, and the fin de siècle
    popular fiction and British culture, 1880-1914
    Author: Daly, Nicholas
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle.... more

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    In Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather than treating these stories as Victorian Gothic, Daly locates them as part of a 'popular modernism'. Drawing on work in cultural studies, this book argues that the vampires, mummies and treasure hunts of these adventure narratives provided a form of narrative theory of cultural change, at a time when Britain was trying to accommodate the 'new imperialism', the rise of professionalism, and the expansion of consumerist culture. Daly's wide-ranging study argues that the presence of a genre such as romance within modernism should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511485077
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    RVK Categories: HL 1301 ; HM 1301
    Subjects: Geschichte; English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; Popular literature / Great Britain / History and criticism; English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Literature and anthropology / Great Britain / History; Adventure stories, English / History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) / Great Britain; Modernism (Literature) / Great Britain; Culture in literature; Unterhaltungsliteratur; Moderne; Literatur; Trivialliteratur; Imperialismus; Politik; Romance; Englisch
    Scope: 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages)
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    Introduction -- Incorporated bodies: Dracula and professionalism -- The imperial treasure hunt: The snake's pass and the limits of romance -- 'Mummie is become merchandise': the mummy story as commodity theory -- Across the great divide: modernism, popular fiction and the primitive -- Afterword: the long goodbye
  10. Joseph Conrad
    the major phase
    Author: Berthoud, Jacques
    Published: 1978
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Although the importance of Conrad's work has long been recognized, Jacques Berthoud attempts a full demonstration of the clarity, consistency, and depth of thought evident in the novels written during the first decade of this century. Instead of the... more

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    Although the importance of Conrad's work has long been recognized, Jacques Berthoud attempts a full demonstration of the clarity, consistency, and depth of thought evident in the novels written during the first decade of this century. Instead of the standard versions of Conrad - from sceptical moralizer to 'metaphysician of darkness' - he offers a tragic novelist, engaged in a sustained exploration of the contradictions inherent in man's relations with his fellows; and from the perspective thus achieved, he is able to show why Conrad occupies a leading place among the creators of modern literature. This book will be of interest to specialists in English studies because it seeks to make a substantial contribution to the critical debate on the significance of Conrad's work. It will also appeal to any reader looking for guidance through the complexities of the major novels: the central issues have been presented as simply as the originality of Conrad's art and thought permits

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780511519192
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    RVK Categories: HM 2335
    Series: British and Irish authors
    Subjects: Adventure stories, English / History and criticism; Roman
    Other subjects: Conrad, Joseph / 1857-1924 / Criticism and interpretation; Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
    Scope: 1 online resource (viii, 191 pages)
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    A personal record -- The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' -- 'Heart of Darkness' -- Lord Jim -- Nostromo -- The secret agent -- Under western eyes -- Conclusion
  11. Transatlantic stories and the history of reading, 1720-1810
    migrant fictions
    Author: Bannet, Eve Tavor
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; Madrid ; Cape Town ; Singapore ; São Paulo ; Delhi ; Tokyo ; Mexico City

    Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed... more

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    Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of transatlantic print culture. Stories include the 'other' Robinson Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler, Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt

     
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  12. Simulating antiquity in boys' adventure fiction
    maps and ink stains
    Author: Vranken, Thomas
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York, NY

    A genre that glorifies brutish masculinity and late Victorian imperialism, boys' 'lost world' adventure fiction has traditionally been studied for its politically problematic content. While attuned to these concerns, this Element approaches the genre... more

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    A genre that glorifies brutish masculinity and late Victorian imperialism, boys' 'lost world' adventure fiction has traditionally been studied for its politically problematic content. While attuned to these concerns, this Element approaches the genre from a different angle, viewing adventure fiction as not just a catalogue of texts but a corpus of books. Examining early editions of Treasure Island, King Solomon's Mines, and The Lost World, the Element argues that fin-de-siècle adventure fiction sought to resist the nineteenth-century industrialisation of book production from within. As the Element points out, the genre is filled with nostalgic simulations of material anachronisms - 'facsimiles' of fictional pre-modern paper, printing, and handwriting that re-humanise the otherwise alienating landscape of the modern book and modern literary production. The Element ends by exploring a subversive revival of lost world adventure fiction that emerged in response to ebooks at the beginning of the twenty-first century

     
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    ISBN: 9781009158930
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    Series: Cambridge elements
    Subjects: Adventure stories, English / History and criticism; Children's stories, English / History and criticism
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