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The Literature of War

Studies in Heroic Virtue

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  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 Spy as Hero: Le Carré and the Cold War

    • Andrew Rutherford
    Pages 135-156
  6. Epilogue: On Realism and the Heroic

    • Andrew Rutherford
    Pages 157-173
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 174-196

About this book

It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition.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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, UK

    Andrew Rutherford

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