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Heroism in Victorian Periodicals 1850–1900 / Part 2: Tradition and Transformation? – Charting Heroism in Chambers’s Journal
Heroism in Victorian Periodicals 1850–1900 / Part 2: Tradition and Transformation? – Charting Heroism in Chambers’s Journal
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Acknowledgements
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Part 1: Heroism and the Periodical Press of Nineteenth-Century Britain
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1. The Cultural Importance of Heroism in Victorian Britain
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Periodicals as a Site for Negotiating the Heroic
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Working with Large Periodicals Corpora
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2. Discourses on Heroism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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2.1 Contemporary Theoretical Considerations on Heroes and Heroism
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“The History of the World is but the Biography of Great Men” – Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
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Improvement through Role Models – Samuel Smiles’s Self-Help
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Change and Continuity – Competing Models of Heroism
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The Missing Female Hero
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2.2 Heroism and Social Identity
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3. Periodical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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3.1 The First Half of the Nineteenth Century
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3.2 The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
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63–208
Part 2: Tradition and Transformation? – Charting Heroism in Chambers’s Journal
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4. Charting Heroism in Chambers’s Journal
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4.1 Chambers’s Journal
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Venturing into Publishing: The Early Careers of William and Robert Chambers
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“The Universal Appetite for Instruction Which at Present Exists” – Chambers’s Journal, a Publication for the People
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Production Processes
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Editors and Contributors
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4.2 Heroism in Chambers’s Journal
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“What is Heroism?”
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Hero Worship
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Precarious Heroicity
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4.3 Chambers’s Journal’s Heroic Imaginary
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Courage
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Selflessness
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Perseverance
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4.4 Military Heroism
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“She Is Waiting the Return of Her Hero” – Representation of Military Heroism During War Time
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Heroism and the Military in Times of Peace
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Military Heroism and Hierarchy
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4.5 Heroes of Civilisation
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Science
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Medicine
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Education
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4.6 Everyday Heroism
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Saving Lives Abroad
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Saving Lives in British Waters
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Bravery in Mining Accidents
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Prize-Winning Heroic Acts
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Heroic Work
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Domestic Heroism – The Everyday Life of Women
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4.7 Different Heroes for Different Readers?
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Popular Instruction for Private Consumption
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Biography Collections
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Educational Publications
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4.8 Heroism in Chambers’s Journal – Forms and Functions
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Part 3: Leader or Role Model? – A Comparative Analysis of Heroism in Leisure Hour and Fraser’s Magazine
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5. Comparative Analysis of Leisure Hour and Fraser’s Magazine
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5.1 Leisure Hour
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5.2 Fraser’s Magazine
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5.3 Military Heroism
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Christian Pacifism and the Rhetoric of Heroism in Leisure Hour
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Opposition to Wars
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The “Hero of the Peninsula” – Established Military Heroes in Leisure Hour
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Leadership and Disruptive Potential – Military Heroism in Fraser’s Magazine
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5.4 Heroes of Civilisation
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Science and Technology in Leisure Hour
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Engineering and Industry
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“Great Sacrifices” – the Heroic Explorer in Leisure Hour
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Missionary Work in Leisure Hour
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Explorers in Fraser’s Magazine
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Civilisation through Politics
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Practical Politicians as Non-Heroes
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5.5 Everyday Heroism in Leisure Hour
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Saving Lives
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Private Heroism of Piety
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5.6 “In these Unheroic Days” – Fraser’s Magazine and Its Engagement with a Heroic Past
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History Writing and the Historian as Messianic Hero
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6. Three Periodicals – Three Heroic Profiles
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Hero and Collective
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Victorian Periodicals and the Heroic
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283–312
Works Cited
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Index
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Heroism in Victorian Periodicals 1850–1900 , page 63 - 208
Part 2: Tradition and Transformation? – Charting Heroism in Chambers’s Journal
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Christiane Hadamitzky
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doi.org/10.5771/9783956507243-63
ISBN print: 978-3-95650-723-6
ISBN online: 978-3-95650-724-3
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