Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World

by Joseph Bristow

Book Overview

Originally published in 1991. Focusing on 'boys' own' literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity developed during the heyday of the British Empire. This book reveals the motives that produced this obsessive focus on boyhood. In Victorian Britain many kinds of writing, from the popular juvenile weeklies to parliamentary reports, celebrated boys of all classes as the heroes of their day. Fighting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138944297
• ISBN13: 9781138944299
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"