PLAY UP AND PLAY THE GAME the heroes of popular fiction.

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Newbolt. Newbolt Man', imbued with the spirit of fairplay, loyalty, fearlessness, conformity (while remaining slightly philistine and sexless), can be...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Howarth, Patrick
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	ABINGDON : ROUTLEDGE, 2023.
Subjects:	Heroes in literature. English fiction > History and criticism.