Extraordinary Ordinariness Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain, 1800-2015

Table of Contents Introduction: Studying Everyday Heroism in Western Societies Simon Wendt 7 "Our Heroes of To-day": The Royal Humane Society and the Creation of Heroes in Victorian Britain Craig Barclay 25 Everyday Heroism for the Victorian Industrial Classes: The British Workman and The British Workwoman, 1855-1880 Christiane Hadamitzky and Barbara Korte 53 Everyday Heroism in Britain, 1850-1939 John Price 79 Volunteers and Professionals: Everyday Heroism and the Fire Service in Nineteenth-Century America Wolfgang Hochbruck 109 Narratives of Feminine Heroism: Gender Values and Memory in the American Press in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Janice Hume 139 Heroic Ordinariness after Cavell and Capra: Hollywood Cinema and Everyday Heroism in the Interwar Period and World War II Matthias Grotkopp 167 Everyday Socialist Heroes and Hegemonic Masculinity in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1989 Sylka Scholz 185 Everyday Heroes in Germany: Perspectives from Cultural Anthropology Silke Meyer 217 After Watergate and Vietnam: Politics, Community, and the Ordinary American Hero, 1975-2015 William Graebner 235 "It Must Have Been Cold There In My Shadow": Everyday Heroism in Superhero Narratives Michael Goodrum 249 After the Working-Class Hero: Popular Music and Everyday Heroism in the United States in the Twenty-First Century Martin Luthe 271 Notes on Contributors 291