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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: sexual imperative in the novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard
  name:
    name part: Reeve, Richard
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 203 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 center 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 recognized.
  table of contents: The Sexual Imperative -- The Origins of Haggard's Fictional Writing -- The Early Novels (1884-1895): Youthful Anger -- The New Woman, Female Self-Sacrifice and Spirituality (1887-1901) -- Spiritual Love and Sexual Renunciation (1899-1908) -- The Final Fiction: Spiritual Consolation and the Dictates of the Sexual Imperative (1909-30) -- Summation: A Personal Odyssey.
  note: Richard Reeve.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider)
      name part: 1856-1925
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Sexual ethics in literature
  subject:
    topic: Sex in literature
  classification: PR4732 .R44 2018
  classification: 823/.8
  identifier: 9781783087631
  identifier: 1783087633
  identifier: 2017059990
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180104
    record change date: 20180718085905.0
    record identifier: in00004016651