{"title":"Haggard's Questioning of the Heroic","authors":"John Coates","doi":"10.4000/CVE.5804","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Rider Haggard is sometimes thought of as a writer who offered thrilling incidents, racial stereotypes and imperialist propaganda, or as a naive myth-maker, unlocking his subconscious and reaching out to ours. Concentrating on \"Eric Brighteyes\" (1891) and \"Narda the Lily\" (1892), this paper argues that Haggard was far more nuanced and self-aware than is commonly supposed. The two novels explore his misgivings about the warrior ethic and competitive heroic societies.","PeriodicalId":41197,"journal":{"name":"CAHIERS VICTORIENS & EDOUARDIENS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CAHIERS VICTORIENS & EDOUARDIENS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/CVE.5804","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Rider Haggard is sometimes thought of as a writer who offered thrilling incidents, racial stereotypes and imperialist propaganda, or as a naive myth-maker, unlocking his subconscious and reaching out to ours. Concentrating on "Eric Brighteyes" (1891) and "Narda the Lily" (1892), this paper argues that Haggard was far more nuanced and self-aware than is commonly supposed. The two novels explore his misgivings about the warrior ethic and competitive heroic societies.
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Les Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens publient depuis 1974 deux numéros par an, l’un sur des sujets et écrivains variés, l’autre consacré à un auteur ou à un thème. Les Cahiers s’intéressent non seulement à la littérature, mais aussi à tous les aspects de la civilisation de l’époque, et accueillent des méthodes critiques variées. Ils publient aussi des comptes rendus d’ouvrages et des résumés de thèses récemment soutenues sur le sujet. Des articles peuvent être soumis en vue d’une publication éventuelle (règles de présentation du M.L.A. Handbook).
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