Ebook: The Literature of War: Studies in Heroic Virtue
Author: Andrew Rutherford (auth.)
- Tags: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature
- Year: 1989
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition. The author argues that the theoretical foundations of these assumptions are inadequate and do not fit the literary facts.
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