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jd472v2757n	Jeremy Davidheiser	Heroic Masculinity and the Problem of Violence in British Political Fiction, 1790-1850	2020		.txt	text/plain	239	5	13	By focusing on how authors use heroic scenes of action not to promote but to question and reimagine the concept of heroic violence, this project complicates prevailing critical and historical narratives of British masculinity's nineteenth-century transformations. Exploring the subgenres of Jacobin and anti-Jacobin fiction, historical fiction, Chartist fiction, and social fiction, this dissertation reads scenes of political heroism alongside developing ideals of nonviolence in Britain—especially concerning typically violent political processes such as warfare and revolution—and it shows how these ideals place important limits on the motives for and kinds of heroic violence depicted in fiction.	cache/jd472v2757n.txt	txt/jd472v2757n.txt