Profiling the heroic through magazines of the Victorian period
Zusammenfassung: This essay introduces the database for a research project analysing the discourse of the heroic in periodicals for the “common” reader in Victorian Britain. The essay sketches some overall results of the project, and the database makes bibliographical and analytical data available for further use by other scholars. The research project was undertaken under the premise that general-interest periodicals give insight into popular concepts of heroes and heroic behaviour and the way they were discussed in the wider public sphere of Victorian society. As will be seen, the Victorians approached their heroes with an ambivalence that seems to anticipate the divided opinions about the heroic in the twenty-first century: Ideas about heroic figures and actions were diverse, contested, and sometimes contradictory. The Victorians honoured heroes, but they also saw them with scepticism and even suspicion. Their attitudes towards the heroic oscillated between disenchantment and a desire to be (re-)enchanted
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
- Keyword
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Held
Heroisierung
Heldenverehrung
Zeitschrift
- DOI
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10.6094/UNIFR/11214
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-112145
- Rights
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Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Last update
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14.08.2025, 10:56 AM CEST
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Associated
- Korte, Barbara
- Universität
Time of origin
- 2016
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