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Heroic Failure and the British
Stephanie Barczewski
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Description for Heroic Failure and the British
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 54 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain's embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment and loss. Filled with compelling, moving, and often humorous stories from history, Barczewski's survey offers a fresh way of thinking about the continuing legacy of empire in British culture today.
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
667g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300180060
SKU
V9780300180060
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Ref
99-50
About Stephanie Barczewski
Stephanie Barczewski is professor of history at Clemson University and the author of Titanic: A Night Remembered, among other books. She lives in Greenville, SC.
Reviews for Heroic Failure and the British
An entertaining and well-written book. -Jad Adams, History Today
Jad Adams
History Today
Stephanie Barczewski, with all the post-colonial detachment that comes naturally to an American academic, gives a long and stirring list... she retells the old heroic tales with a narrative touch and a delicate irony which avoids condescension. -Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books
Ferdinand Mount
London Review of Books
A psychological history. Barczewski maps out trends in British thought and intertwines conjecture about where they have come from... I enjoyed the quest of it; and something about Barczewski evident and fervent anglophilia almost left me feeling quite proud of being Britis.h -Hugo Rifkind, Times
Hugo Rifkind
The Times
The author has hit on a rich and fascinating subject...Heroic Failure has some sharp truths to tell about Victorian Britain -John Carey, Sunday Times
Sunday Times
John Carey
Jad Adams
History Today
Stephanie Barczewski, with all the post-colonial detachment that comes naturally to an American academic, gives a long and stirring list... she retells the old heroic tales with a narrative touch and a delicate irony which avoids condescension. -Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books
Ferdinand Mount
London Review of Books
A psychological history. Barczewski maps out trends in British thought and intertwines conjecture about where they have come from... I enjoyed the quest of it; and something about Barczewski evident and fervent anglophilia almost left me feeling quite proud of being Britis.h -Hugo Rifkind, Times
Hugo Rifkind
The Times
The author has hit on a rich and fascinating subject...Heroic Failure has some sharp truths to tell about Victorian Britain -John Carey, Sunday Times
Sunday Times
John Carey