Fraser, Robert
Victorian quest romance: Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle - New Delhi Atlantic 2010 - 93p. - Writers and Their Work .
Late Victorian quest romance has recently attracted renewed attention from critics. Much of this interest has centred on its politics of gender, and its vision of Empire. This book prefers to view the genre in the light of debates within the then nascent sciences of Anthropology and Archaeology. Starting with a discussion of the nature of romance, it goes on to interpret the encounters with lost or buried pasts. By describing encounters with remote places and times, so it argues, these authors were asking their readers disconcerting questions about humankind, and about their own culture’s institutions and beliefs. The book ends by considering the implications of such a view for the whole colonial enterprise.
9788126913176
Literature
English literature
English fiction
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Quests (Expeditions) in literature
Romanticism
Great Britain
Adventure stories, English
English fiction
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
823.8 / FRA/V
Victorian quest romance: Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle - New Delhi Atlantic 2010 - 93p. - Writers and Their Work .
Late Victorian quest romance has recently attracted renewed attention from critics. Much of this interest has centred on its politics of gender, and its vision of Empire. This book prefers to view the genre in the light of debates within the then nascent sciences of Anthropology and Archaeology. Starting with a discussion of the nature of romance, it goes on to interpret the encounters with lost or buried pasts. By describing encounters with remote places and times, so it argues, these authors were asking their readers disconcerting questions about humankind, and about their own culture’s institutions and beliefs. The book ends by considering the implications of such a view for the whole colonial enterprise.
9788126913176
Literature
English literature
English fiction
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Quests (Expeditions) in literature
Romanticism
Great Britain
Adventure stories, English
English fiction
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
823.8 / FRA/V