TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fraser, Robert
TI  - Victorian quest romance: Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle
T2  - Writers and Their Work
SN  - 9788126913176
U1  - 823.8 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Atlantic  
KW  - Literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
KW  - Quests (Expeditions) in literature
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Adventure stories, English
KW  - Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
KW  - Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
N2  - 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
ER  -