Name: The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of sir Henry Rider Haggard (en Inglés)
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Author: Richard Reeve
ISBN: 9781783087631

portada The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of sir Henry Rider Haggard (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Anthem Press

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Richard Reeve

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Inglés

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Tapa Dura

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9781783087631

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Ficción, novelistas y prosistas
Estudios literarios del siglo xix

The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of sir Henry Rider Haggard (en Inglés)

Richard Reeve (Autor) · Anthem Press · Tapa Dura

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The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard: A Lifetime Obsession's' main focus is Haggard's preoccupation in his fiction with the theme of the sexual imperative and the... Leer másThe Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard: A Lifetime Obsession's' main focus is Haggard's preoccupation in his fiction with the theme of the sexual imperative and the relationship between his fictional representations and his personal emotional geography and experiences. It illuminates and explores aspects of this theme primarily by detailed examination of ten of his novels but it also demonstrates that identically evolving considerations of the theme are apparent in his contemporary romances. The book fills an important gap in Haggard scholarship which has traditionally tended to focus on his early romances and to centre on their political and psychological resonances. It also contributes to wider current debates on Victorian and turn of the century literature.The book adopts a chronological framework which spans the entirety of Haggard's writing career and considers the novels and corresponding romances which he wrote at each stage in his literary development. It considers Haggard's literary representations in the context of contemporary sexual behaviours and attitudes, and of other contemporary literary representations of sexuality. It notes Haggard's deployment in his novels of contemporary literary genres, notably those of the Sensation Novel, the New Woman, and later Modernism, and it examines what he contributed to these genres and how his interpretation of them compared to that of his literary contemporaries.This book traces Haggard's emotional investment in his evolving depictions of the destructive potential for the male of female sexuality and demonstrates that his focus develops, as his writing career progresses, from deeply personal renditions of sexual betrayal towards a proposal that the seeds of moral destruction are an integral part of the sexual imperative. It examines his sustained consideration in his novels of the issues of the position of women and of the marriage question and documents his exploration of whether an unsatisfactory marriage legitimises extra-marital sexual relations. It notes, as a measure of Haggard's moral progressiveness, that despite his formal need to criticise this behaviour, he is in fact clear that it is both natural and morally irreproachable. The book also examines Haggard's exploration of the merits of a love which is predominantly spiritual rather than sexual and his consideration of the virtues of sexual renunciation. It relates his treatment of these themes to that of contemporary novelists and spiritualist writers. It documents his final fiction which depicts the inescapable imperatives of the human situation and celebrates the overwhelming validity of sexual passion in a committed relationship. It considers the extent of Haggard's modernity and proposes that although he remains careful and caveated in his moral statements, and conservative by contemporary literary standards, he does unquestionably endorse self-fulfilment over social duty. The book's conclusion argues that Haggard's novels and many of his romances represent a consideration of issues which he saw as at the root of being and that the consistency, balance and open-mindedness with which he pursued them suggest a generally uncredited integrity and weight to his fiction.