<p>It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition.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.</p>

The literature of war: Five studies in heroic virtue

Literature & Fiction

Andrew Rutherford

Essays & Correspondence

Barnes&Noble Books

Byron: Augustan and Romantic

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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