Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800

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