Titlebook: Manliness and the Boys’ Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940; Kelly Boyd Book 2003 Kelly Boyd 2003 comic.cultural history

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Boys’ Lives: Boys’ Education, Work And Leisure, 1855–1940. Readers were expected to be boys on the brink of youth, generally in their last years of formal schooling and first years of work. This was a sizable group from the mid-nineteenth century onwards as the overall population continued to rise and mortality declined. Census figures reveal that by 1861

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Publishers and Strategies: From Family Firms to Mass Marketingorian period to highly capitalized proprietorship within the context of a limited company in the twentieth century. These changes came slowly and were driven by new technologies and their expense as well as by the expansion of new markets. The following chapter traces this in the context of the deve

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The Democratization of Manliness at the Turn of the Century, 1890–1920turous and arrogant. Although some examples of his type persisted, Edwardian heroes tended to reside lower on the social scale. Pit boys, engine-drivers and factory lads began to find their likenesses held up as examples of heroic manliness. The very definition of manly behaviour was therefore chang

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Balance, Self-Control and Obedience in the Inter-War Yearsized by the shift to skilled working-class heroes who put the needs of the family or community above their own desires. The inter-war years saw these tendencies strengthened. Fewer heroes were aristocratic and almost all were confronted by the challenge of how to fit into society. Sometimes this req

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‘Manhood Achieved’: Imperialism, Racism and Manlinesstant component of the papers, continuing into the twentieth century. Empire was a commonplace notion in the period examined in this book and the papers were not shy in employing the grandeur and responsibility of empire in its task of constructing model British men. But attitudes towards the empire

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Conclusion: On Heroes and Hero Worshipon, they responded to changing pressures in society — that is, to economic fluctuations, the restructuring of class systems, evolving educational forms, political developments and many other factors. Masculinity was never a static set of values, but a complex array of contradictory impulses into whi