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The sexual imperative in the novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard
- Title
- The sexual imperative in the novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard / Richard Reeve.
- Author
- Reeve, Richard, 1948-
- Publication
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-3955 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 203 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The book represents a detailed consideration of the development of the theme of the sexual imperative primarily through the prism of ten of Haggard's novels, a largely unexplored area of his fiction, but also in certain of his contemporary romances. The book fills an important gap in Haggard scholarship which has traditionally tended to focus upon his early romances and to centre on their political and psychological resonances, and to contribute to wider current debates on Victorian and turn of the century literature. It explores the relationship between Haggard's fictional rendition of this theme and aspects of his personal history and it proposes that his preoccupation with it constitutes in significant part an outworking of deeply personal sexual and emotional issues. The book relates Haggard's fiction to the literary and social context in which he wrote. It contends that although his treatment of this theme is not nearly as adventurous as that of some of his literary contemporaries his repeated consideration of what he regarded as the most important human driver lends his fiction a strength and integrity which has not been fully recognised"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index.
- Contents
- The Sexual Imperative -- The Origins of Haggard's Fictional Writing -- The Early Novels (1884-1895): Youthful Anger -- The New Woman, Female Self-Sacrifice and Spirituality (1887-1901) -- Spiritual Love and Sexual Renunciation (1899-1908) -- The Final Fiction: Spiritual Consolation and the Dictates of the Sexual Imperative (1909-30) -- Summation: A Personal Odyssey.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-3955
- ISBN
- 9781783087631
- 1783087633
- LCCN
- 2017059990
- OCLC
- 1011626600
- Author
- Reeve, Richard, 1948- author.
- Title
- The sexual imperative in the novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard / Richard Reeve.
- Publisher
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-3955