Play Up and Play the Game
eBook - ePub

Play Up and Play the Game

The Heroes of Popular Fiction

  1. 190 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Play Up and Play the Game

The Heroes of Popular Fiction

About this book

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Newbolt. 'Newbolt Man', imbued with the spirit of fairplay, loyalty, fearlessness, conformity (while remaining slightly philistine and sexless), can be traced in the work of Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Anthony Hope and P.C. Wren. The book traces his development from the Victorian schoolboy (Tom Brown's School Days and Kipling) to the twentieth-century secret agent (Buchan's Richard Hannay), and on to his demise in Sheriff's Journey's End and Aldington's Death of a Hero.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Original Title Page
  5. Original Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction — The Nature of Newbolt Man
  10. 1 . Christian Socialism and Muscular Christianity
  11. 2 . Penny Dreadfuls and the Ballantyne Boy
  12. 3 . Schoolboy Story Heroes
  13. 4 . Boy Heroes and Imperial History
  14. 5 . Newbolt Man and the Historical Novel of Adventure
  15. 6 . White Man’s Burden
  16. 7 . Detectives, Secret Agents and Demobilized Officers
  17. 8 . The Aftermath of War
  18. 9 . Newbolt Man: Reality and Summary
  19. Bibliographical Note