H Rider Haggard On The Imperial Frontier

Author : Gerald Monsman
Publisher : E & L Press
ISBN 13 : 9780944318218
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book H. Rider Haggard on the Imperial Frontier written by Gerald Monsman and published by E & L Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book-length study of H. R. H.'s African fiction. It revised the image of Rider Haggard (1836-1925) as a mere writer of adventure stories, a brassy propagandist for British imperialism. Professor Monsman places Haggard's imaginative works both in the context of colonial fiction writing and in the framework of subsequent postcolonial debates about history and its representation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gerald Cornelius Monsman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780944318300
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book H. Rider Haggard on the Imperial Frontier written by Gerald Cornelius Monsman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "H. Rider Haggard on the Imperial Frontier, the first book-length study of H.R.H.'s African fiction, revises the image of Rider Haggard (1856-1925) as a mere writer of adventure stories, a brassy propagandist for British imperialism. Professor Monsman places Haggard's imaginative works both in the context of colonial fiction writing and in the framework of subsequent postcolonial debates about history and its representation. Like Olive Schreiner, Haggard was an Anglo-African writer straddling the moral divide of mixed allegiances--one empathetically African, the other quite English. The context for such Haggard tales as King Solomon's Mines and She was a triad of extraordinary nineteenth-century cultures in conflict--British, Boer, and Zulu. Haggard mined his characters both from the ore of real-life Africa and from the depths of his subconscious, giving expression to feelings of cultural conflict, probing and subverting the dominant economic and social forces of imperialism. Monsman argues that Haggard endorses native religious powers as superior to the European empirical paradigm, celebrates autonomous female figures who defy patriarchal control, and covertly supports racial mixing. These social and political elements are integral to his thrilling story lines charged with an exoticism of lived nightmares and extraordinary ordeals. H. Rider Haggard on the Imperial Frontier will be of interest to readers of imperial history and biography, "lost race" and supernatural literature, tales of terror, and heroic fantasies. The book's unsettling relevance to contemporary issues will engage a wide audience, and the groundbreaking biographical account of Haggard's close contemporary Bertram Mitford in the appendix will add appeal to specialists."--Publisher's website.

Author : Andrew Griffiths
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137454385
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870-1900 written by Andrew Griffiths and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aggressive policy, enthusiastic news coverage and sensational novelistic style combined to create a distinctive image of Britain's Empire in late-Victorian print media. The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870-1900 traces this phenomenon through the work of editors, special correspondents and authors.

Author : Simon Magus
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004470247
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rider Haggard and the Imperial Occult written by Simon Magus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rider Haggard and the Imperial Occult, Simon Magus explores the occult world of H. Rider Haggard through an analysis of his literary engagement with ancient Egypt, Romanticism and Theosophy.

Author : Wendy Roberta Katz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521131131
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rider Haggard and the Fiction of Empire written by Wendy Roberta Katz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: imperial history and politics, as well as to readers of Haggard. --Book Jacket.

Author : Norman Etherington
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526106078
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperium of the soul written by Norman Etherington and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most compelling and enduring creative work of the late Victorian and Edwardian Era came from committed imperialists and conservatives. Their continuing popularity owes a great deal to the way their guiding ideas resonated with modernism in the arts and psychology. The analogy they perceived between the imperial business of subjugating savage subjects and the civilised ego's struggle to subdue the unruly savage within generated some of their best artistic endeavours. In a series of thematically linked chapters Imperium of the soul explores the work of writers Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Rider Haggard and John Buchan along with the composer Edward Elgar and the architect Herbert Baker. It culminates with an analysis of their mutual infatuation with T. E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - who represented all their dreams for the future British Empire but whose ultimate paralysis of creative imagination exposed the fatal flaw in their psycho-political project. This transdisciplinary study will interest not only scholars of imperialism and the history of ideas but general readers fascinated by bygone ideas of exotic adventure and colonial rule.

Author : H. Rider Haggard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Desire written by H. Rider Haggard and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Hultgren
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444832
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melodramatic Imperial Writing written by Neil Hultgren and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century. Yet, through its impact on many late-Victorian genres outside of the theater, melodrama developed a complicated relationship with British imperial discourse. Melodramatic Imperial Writing positions melodrama as a vital aspect of works that underscored the contradictions and injustices of British imperialism. Beyond proving useful for authors constructing imperialist fantasies or supporting unjust policies, the melodramatic mode enabled writers to upset narratives of British imperial destiny and racial superiority. Neil Hultgren explores a range of texts, from Dickens’s writing about the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion to W. E. Henley’s imperialist poetry and Olive Schreiner’s experimental fiction, in order to trace a new and complex history of British imperialism and the melodramatic mode in late-Victorian writing.

Author : Thomas Kent Miller
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1787051617
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life written by Thomas Kent Miller and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Ethiopia and beyond, Sherlock Holmes encounters both the hideous and the divine, ripping asunder the fragile veil separating us from worlds unknown-all while in the company of the renowned Allan Quatermain. The last of Allan Quatermain's true African adventures to appear, The Treasure of the Lake, was published nearly a century ago in 1926. Those who lusted to vicariously accompany Quatermain on new perilous treks into the vast reaches of the "Dark Continent" (as they had done to King Solomon's Mines) had no choice but to remain disappointed. UNTIL NOW! Recently found amongst some obscure papers at Brown University, this new manuscript chronicles a complex and inspired quest headed by Quatermain deep into the earthquake- and volcano-ripped Danakil Desert of Ethiopia in 1872 accompanied by his devoted aide-de-camp Hans and a host of the nineteenth century's most prodigious luminaries, including astronomer Maria Mitchell, volcanologist Axel Lindenbrock, and Gunnery Sergeants Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan. Along the way, this ragtag troop is brutally attacked in the desert by its trophy-hunting denizens, and then they discover a 2,000-year-old lost city. Yet Holmes' and Quatermain’s quest is not merely one of surviving in Ethiopia’s beautiful yet tortuous landscapes; they must confront horror and overcome it. As the tale unfolds, readers will be swallowed by a maelstrom of concepts, relentlessly pulled headlong, descending into a scholarly labyrinth of interwoven writings. In point of fact, Quatermain encounters no less than the very essence of the meaning of life, which he then discounts as a wizard's trick!

Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199698716
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mummy's Curse written by Roger Luckhurst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky history that offers a new way of understanding the myth of the mummy's curse. Roger Luckhurst provides a startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions.