Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800: Case Studies

1. Introduction: Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction - Concepts and Conjunctures; Barbara Korte and Stefanie Lethbridge.- 2.Negotiating Modernity: Heroes and Heroines in Gothic and Sensation Fiction of the Long Nineteenth Century; Stefanie Lethbridge.- 3. Potentially the Noble Creature? Picturing Heroism in Henry Rider Haggard's She; Alison E. Martin.- 4. The Fate of Heroism after Industrialisation: The Working-Class Male in the British Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel and Beyond; Ralf Schneider.- 5. Death of the Hero? Heroism in British Fiction of the First World War; Ann-Marie Einhaus.- 6. "A Courage Steadfast, Luminous": Christopher Caudwell and the Communist Hero; Anindya Raychaudhuri.- 7. Unspeakable Heroism: The Second World War and the End of the Hero; Lucy Hall and Gill Plain.- 8. Constructing and Deconstructing the Fantasy Hero: Joe Abercrombie's "First Law" Trilogy; Jochen Petzold.- 9.An Unlikely Hero for the War-on-Terror Decade: Patrick Neate's City of Tiny Lights; Nicole Falkenhayner.- 10. The Heroic in British Young Adult Fiction: Traditions and Renegotiations; Kristina Sperlich.- 11. Victims and Heroes Get all Mixed Up: Gender and Agency in the Thriller; Barbara Korte.- Bibliography.- Index.-