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The Literature of War

Studies in Heroic Virtue

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Andrew Rutherford

    1. Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Rutherford
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Subaltern as Hero: Kipling and Frontier War

    • Andrew Rutherford
    Pages 11-37

  4. The Intellectual as Hero: Lawrence of Arabia

    • Andrew Rutherford
    Pages 38-63

  5. The Common Man as Hero: Literature of the Western Front

    • Andrew Rutherford
    Pages 64-112

  6. The Christian as Hero: Waugh’s Sword of Honour

    • Andrew Rutherford
    Pages 113-134

  7. The Spy as Hero: Le Carré and the Cold War

    • Andrew Rutherford
    Pages 135-156

  8. Epilogue: On Realism and the Heroic

    • Andrew Rutherford
    Pages 157-173

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 174-196
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It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition. The author argues that the theoretical foundations of these assumptions are inadequate and do not fit the literary facts.

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  • Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, UK

    Andrew Rutherford

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