SOURCE: "Popular Literature and Children's Literature," in Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire, Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1979, pp. 203-34.
In the following extract, Green examines the different forms of heroism represented in popular boys' fiction during the nineteenth century.
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