“It must have been cold there in my shadow”: everyday heroism in superhero narratives

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Goodrum, M. 2016. “It must have been cold there in my shadow”: everyday heroism in superhero narratives. in: Wendt, S. (ed.) Extraordinary Ordinariness: Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain, 1800-2015 Frankfurt Campus. pp. 249-270

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Authors	Goodrum, M.
Editors	Wendt, S.
Page range	249-270
Year	2016
Book title	Extraordinary Ordinariness: Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain, 1800-2015
Publisher	Campus
Output status	Published
Place of publication	Frankfurt
Deposited	06 Jan 2017
Accepted	Apr 2016

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