By Lindy Stiebel
ISBN-10: 0313318034
ISBN-13: 9780313318030
Best often called the writer of such works as King Solomon's Mines and She, H. Rider Haggard was once the most well known writers of the late-Victorian period, and his works remain influential at the present time. To a wide measure, his novels are desirable as a result of his picture of Africa, and an realizing of his illustration of the African panorama is imperative to a serious interpreting of his works. This booklet argues that Haggard created in his African romances a formulaic, ideological geography which supplied a canvas onto which he projected his wishes and fears, either own and political, in addition to these of his age.
The first full-length learn of land and panorama in Haggard's African romances, this ebook methods his building of an imaginary African panorama as a made from late-Victorian wishful wondering Africa, examining his African topography as an unlimited Eden, a desolate tract, a dream underworld, a house to old white civilizations, and a sexualized metaphor for the human physique. whereas the paintings seems essentially at his pre-1892 romances, that have been his strongest, it additionally supplies awareness to his nonfiction and unpublished papers. simply because Haggard's writings embodied the spirit of his age, this e-book is a vital advisor to late-Victorian techniques of Africa, colonization, and the British Empire.
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