eprintid: 10184747 rev_number: 15 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/47/47 datestamp: 2024-01-05 12:42:32 lastmod: 2024-06-04 16:47:17 status_changed: 2024-01-05 12:42:32 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Haines, Timothy title: Heroic Fear: Emotions, Masculinity, and Dangerous Nature in British Colonial Adventure Narratives ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 divisions: ZZ3 keywords: Hunting, exploration, emotion, imperialism, masculinity note: © 2024 Daniel Haines This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) abstract: The image of the heroic adventurer, who shot big game or traveled remote regions of the earth, populated the British Empire’s exploration and hunting narratives. Scholars have done much to deconstruct this image but have so far barely touched on the emotional dimensions of encounters between Britons and dangerous natural environments in tropical colonies. This article combines literary-historical criticism with a history of emotions perspective to show how the expression or, alternately, elision of fear in adventure memoirs helped to frame encounters with wild animals and sheer topography as part of imperialism’s moral project. It analyzes texts that recount events in and around India and parts of Africa, published between the 1890s and 1940s. The article’s author discusses a range of authors from obscure settlers and army officers to well-known proponents of the adventure genre such as Mary Kingsley, Jim Corbett, and Francis Kingdon-Ward. Together, these accounts demonstrated that fear held a legitimate and powerful place in heroic imperial narratives by helping readers to identify with the danger that a narrator had to overcome. Narratives of fear increased in number and forthrightness after the First World War, highlighting the impact of the wider British questioning of prewar models of heroic masculinity on imperial adventure literature. date: 2024-03-01 date_type: published publisher: University of New South Wales official_url: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10943145 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2114721 doi: 10.1215/22011919-10943145 lyricists_name: Haines, Timothy lyricists_id: THAIN33 actors_name: Haines, Timothy actors_id: THAIN33 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: AH/P014577/1 [Arts and Humanities Research Council] full_text_status: public publication: Environmental Humanities volume: 16 number: 1 pagerange: 162-182 citation: Haines, Timothy; (2024) Heroic Fear: Emotions, Masculinity, and Dangerous Nature in British Colonial Adventure Narratives. Environmental Humanities , 16 (1) pp. 162-182. 10.1215/22011919-10943145 <https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10943145>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184747/8/Haines_162haines.pdf