Heroic Failure and the British

by Stephanie Barczewski

From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain's embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300180063
• ISBN13: 9780300180060
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.1"