Play Up and Play the Game: The Heroes of Popular Fiction
Author:   Patrick Howarth
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781032498973


Pages:   194
Publication Date:   08 March 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Play Up and Play the Game: The Heroes of Popular Fiction


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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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Author:   Patrick Howarth
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781032498973


ISBN 10:   1032498978
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   08 March 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Adult education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction – The Nature of Newbolt Man. 1. Christian Socialism and Muscular Christianity 2. Penny Dreadfuls and the Ballantyne Boy 3. Schoolboy Story Heroes 4. Boy Heroes and Imperial History 5. Newbolt Man and the Historical Novels of Adventure 6. White Man’s Burden 7. Detectives, Secret Agents and Demobilized Officers 8. The Aftermath of War 9. Newbolt Man: Reality and Summary

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