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Amalgamated Press
Animal Kingdom
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Boy's Own Paper
British adventure fiction
Bulldog Drummond
Castle Inn
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Charlie Marryat
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evolution of fictional British hero
Female Of The Species
Henry Newbolt
imperial ideology
Imperial literature
Jack Harkaway
Jeffrey Farnol
Journey's End
Journey’s End
King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon’s Mines
Kipling
Literary criticism
literary hero archetypes
Literary theory
Masterman Ready
muscular Christianity
Penny Dreadful
Penny Dreadfuls
Richard Hannay
Rider Haggard
Royal Humane Society
Savoy Theatre
Scarlet Pimpernel
schoolboy literature
Sir Henry Bulwer
Sir Henry Newbolt
Superb
Talbot Baines Reed
Tom Brown
Tom Brown's School Days
Victorian literature
Victorian masculinity
Westward Ho
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781032498973
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2023
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
