The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century

The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century\nCopyright\nContents\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\nNotes on Contributors\nHercules, the Modern Man: an Introduction\nPart 1: The Hero in Literature, Art and Politics\n	Part 1.1: Nineteenth- to Twenty-first-century Literature\n		1 Hercules among the Germans: from Winckelmann to Hölderlin\n		2 Hercules among the Tractarians: Typological Reading in Isaac Williams\' The Christian Scholar\n		3 \'And maybe in your case there wouldn\'t be a Herakles.\': Herakles in C.P. Cavafy and Yannis Ritsos\n		4 The Mirror of Greek Myth: James McAuley\'s \'The Hero and the Hydra\'\n		5 The Egg-headed Hero: Agatha Christie\'s The Labours of Hercules\n		6 Hercules as Romantic Hero in Twenty-first-century Historical Fiction\n	Part 1.2: A Hero for Children?\n		7 Hercules in Children\'s Literature: a \'warts and all\' Model of Masculinity?\n		8 Demigod, God or Monster? Rick Riordan\'s Hercules\n		9 The Incredible Hercules: Prince of Power\n	Part 1.3: Political Discourse\n		10 Whose Hero? Hercules and His Avatars in Political Discourse\n		11 Reimagining Herakles: a Supporter of the Greek Revolution and a Defender of the Greek Crown\n		12 Ο Ηρακλής πήρε το ρόπαλό του (\'Herakles took up his club\'): the Reception of Herakles in the Modern Greek Press\n		13 A Coruña, Cidade Herculina: Hercules as Founder of Cities\n		14 Exhibiting Maguire\'s Herakles: a Dialogue between Old and New Worlds\nPart 2: From Image to Screen\n	Part 2.1: Modes of Reception\n		15 Herakles on Chesil Bank: The Archers, Disavowable Classics, and The Small Back Room\n		16 \'The Muscles of Hercules Beneath the Skin of Antinous\': Mapping Herculean Stardom in Film Fan-Magazine Discourse\n		17 Hercules \'Down-Under\': Antipodean Experiences of the Hero\'s Machismo\n	Part 2.3: Millenial Concerns\n		18 The Mighty Hercules Cartoon Series in Conversation with Steve Reeve\'s Hercules and Some Societal Concerns of the Early 1960s\n		19 Asterix as the New Hercules: The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976)\n		20 Disney\'s Hercules in Context: Mouse-morality for Mini-heroes\n		21 A Real American Hero: the Superhero-fication of Disney\'s Hercules\n		22 The Transnational Convergence of Family Values, Computer-Generated Monsters, and Cleavage in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys\n	Part 2.3: Millenial Concerns\n		23 The Labours of Hercules-Sama\n		24 Hercules\' Self-fashioning on Screen: Millennial Concerns and Political Dimensions\n		25 \'Through a Glass, Partly\' Reflections of Hercules in Video Games: the Mythodiegesis of Depictions of Hercules in Video Games, and Their Groundings in Medium and Textual Requirements and Contexts\n	Part 2.4: From Graphic Novel to Blockbuster Film\n		26 \'I Am Hercules\' in 2014: Rebooting and Rationalizing a Modern Hero\n		27 Warriors, Murderers, Savages: Violence in Steve Moore\'s Hercules: The Thracian Wars\n		28 Sex and Gender, Race and Orientalism in Steve Moore\'s Hercules Comics\n		29 How the Rock became Rockules: Dwayne Johnson\'s Star Text in Hercules (2014)\nIndex