Research Catalog

Title

Heroic reputations and exemplary lives / edited by Geoffrey Cubitt and Allen Warren.

Publication

Manchester [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cubitt, Geoffrey.
• Warren, Allen.

Description

x, 274 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

Covering periods ranging from the later Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century, these essays offer a wide-ranging examination of the place of hero-worship and of exemplary biography in modern history and culture.

Series Statement

York studies in cultural history

Uniform Title

York studies in cultural history

Subject

• Heroes
• Biography
• heroes
• collective biographies

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: heroic reputations and exemplary lives / Geoffrey Cubitt -- The Intellectual as Hero -- Getting a life: reconstructing the late medieval exemplarity of Plato / Christian Turner -- The spirit of Spinoza and the Enlightenment image of the pure philosopher / Adam Sutcliffe -- Faces of genius: images of Isaac Newton in eighteenth-century England / Patricia Fara -- Heroes of Empire -- The iconography of the exemplary life: the case of David Livingstone / John M. MacKenzie -- 'Our King upon his knees': the public commemoration of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition / Max Jones -- Baden-Powell: two lives of a hero, or two heroic lives? / Allen Warren -- Ancient Heroes and Historic Exemplars -- Roman heroism and the problems of nineteenth-century empire: Aeneas and Caractacus / Norman Vance -- The Red Queen and the White Queen: exemplification of medieval queens in nineteenth-century Britain / Rosemary Mitchell -- Ruskin and Carlyle: changing forms of biography in Fors Clavigera / Dinah Birch -- Exemplary Types -- 'Martyrs to a nice sense of honor': exemplars of commercial morality in the mid-nineteenth-century United States / Christopher Clark -- 'With a lofty moral purpose': Caroline Martyn, Enid Stacy, Margaret McMillan, Katharine St John Conway and the cult of the good woman socialist / Krista Cowman -- The batsman as gentleman: inter-war cricket and the English hero / Richard Holt -- The Contemporary Hero -- Nelson Mandela: political saint for a new democracy / Tom Lodge.

ISBN

• 0719057809
• 9780719057809
• 0719057817
• 9780719057816

OCLC

• ocm47083340
• 47083340
• SCSB-14719949

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library