{"product_id":"9783031899867","title":"The British Adventure Hero: Industrial Gentlemanliness in Text and Image, 1870–1914","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe British Adventure Hero\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eIndustrial Gentlemanliness in Text and Image, 1870–1914\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hall, Leo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the construction of the fin-de-siècle adventure hero: set against a romanticised vision of the past and a nostalgic ideal of gentlemanliness, but also forward-looking in terms of forging a future for Britain through the imperialist dream. \u003cem\u003eThe British Adventure Hero\u003c\/em\u003e offers a unique focus on how the adventure hero’s masculinity is shaped by Victorian industrial, technological, and scientific developments, which influenced concepts of national identity both psychologically and physiologically. Central to exploring the relationship between the adventure hero and industrialisation are the original illustrations that were printed with the stories in periodicals and the first illustrated editions. This approach to studying the partnership between both text and illustrations demonstrates that the adventure story is a paradox: an outcome of invention, scientific, technological and industrial progress, yet also a supposed escape from nineteenth-century industrial modernity. The book traces this context through analysis of Robert Louis Stevenson’s \u003cem\u003eTreasure Island\u003c\/em\u003e (1883), Arthur Conan Doyle’s \u003cem\u003eThe Lost World\u003c\/em\u003e (1912), Jules Verne’s \u003cem\u003eAround the World in Eighty Days\u003c\/em\u003e (1873), and Edgar Rice Burroughs’s \u003cem\u003eTarzan of the Apes\u003c\/em\u003e (1912). Significantly, the book also examines how these authors’ perspectives on the idealised English identities of their heroes are informed by their Scottish, French, and American nationalities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025-06-25\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9783031899867\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 287\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44317980885132,"sku":"9783031899867","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031899867.jpg?v=1768939376","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783031899867","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}