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The sexual imperative in the novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard
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
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Reading Eternity: Haggard's She and Immortality in the Fin-de-siecle Novel
Immortality has been an enduring human desire, and certainly one that British novelists in the late century engaged with. H. Rider Haggard was one such novelist, and in his sensational She: A History of Adventure he raises the possibility of transcending human conceptions of time through the titular Ayesha, whose existence represents both an existential threat to the British way of life and a seductive fantasy. Although initially illegible to the explorers who encounter her, through her bodily destruction Ayesha, and the scale of time that she stands for in the text, becomes legible, dissolving the fantasy.
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White Skins/Black Masks
In this exciting re-reading of the classic work of Haggard and Kipling, Gail Ching-Liang Low examines the representational dynamics of colonizer versus colonized. Exploring the interface between the native 'other' as a reflection and as a point of address, the author asserts that this 'other' is a mirror reflecting the image of the colonizer - a 'cultural cross-dressing'. Employing psychoanalysis, anthropology and postcolonial theory, Low analyzes the way in which fantasy and fabulation are caught up in networks of desire and power. White Skins/Black Masks is a fascinating entry into the current debate of post-colonial theory.
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International Law and Imperial Romance: Contracts, Sovereignty, and the Rage for Order in Early Haggard
This essay argues that H. Rider Haggard's early and most successful imperial romances, King Solomon's Mines (1885) and She (1886–87), can best be understood in relation to the contemporaneous discourse of international law. Reading the novels alongside the reports of Travers Twiss, the British jurist who gave legal form to the colonial exploits of King Leopold II of Belgium, the essay finds the imperial romance bidding for the juridically expansive plans of the new imperialism. Both novels thus discard the conventional divisions of imperial thought—the binaries between metropole and colony, self and other—insisting instead on universalist visions of order.
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Travelling Across the Colonial Frontier: Female Mobility and the Making of English National Identity in H. Rider Haggard’s Benita: An African Romance
Given his most famous account, “I can safely say that there is not a petticoat in the whole history” of his most well-known romance,
(1885), H. Rider Haggard’s works have been mostly celebrated as significant examples of the representation of imperial masculinities in the late Victorian romance fiction. In this typical imperialist narrative, Africa provides a setting for British boys to become men (Brantlinger, 1988). This paper, however, suggests that this notion of male mobility is replaced by the portrayal of a female traveller in Haggard’s
(1906). Benita’s sea journey from Southampton to Durban also brings gender roles into question in Haggard’s long lost travel text. This article, thus, will explore Haggard’s work in the broad Victorian context of political, philosophical and racial beliefs, and investigate the role of female travellers in the construction of national identity.
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POWER, PROPHECY, AND DOMINIONISM: THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION GOES TO WASHINGTON
According to historian David Bebbington, mainstream evangelical theology focuses instead on biblicism, crucicentrism, conversionism, and an activism that assumes the implications of the Gospel will be evident in the lives of individual believers.5 In contrast, the NAR's central theological beliefs demand that movement adherents seek influence and power in order to reform, disciple, and govern nations, setting conditions for Jesus to return to govern the earth. Rather than being unique to the last few years or the Trump presidency, the above-mentioned factors, which have contributed to the increased influence enjoyed by the New Apostolic Reformation since its inception in 2000, are at least partially responsible for the growing religio-political syncretism that has in turn made the term \"evangelical\" the focus of scholarly and public debate. After years of striving for acceptance within American evangelicalism and for power within the American political system, restorationist charismatics had finally acquired direct and sustained influence with a potential national leader who they felt would restore the United States to its long-prophesied providential destiny. Historian John Fea briefly acknowledged the NAR, (identifying them as Independent Network Charismatics in a nod to Christerson and Flory's term), and the unanimity with which they supported Trump's candidacy and presidency.10 The NAR and leading apostle C. Peter Wagner also receive brief mention in histories of the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, which observe that the new coalitions of apostles and prophets are growing both in size and influence within the Pentecostal/charismatic world and within wider Christianity.11 Rene Holvast, a professor of missiology in the Democratic Republic of Congo, authored an important monograph on one aspect of the NAR, its fascination with spiritual mapping, a practice some NAR Christians believe helps them fight demons and take control over geographic areas.12 Scholars have also begun to publish useful journal articles exploring different facets of how the movement operates, including exploring its rhetoric and focus on spiritual warfare.13 Yet, this relatively new movement is just beginning to receive the academic attention it deserves.
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