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Henry Rider Haggard's Nordicism?
Henry Rider Haggard’s Nordicism? When Black Vikings fight alongside White Zulus in South Africa Gilles Teulié To cite this version: Gilles Teulié. Henry Rider Haggard’s Nordicism? When Black Vikings fight alongside White Zulus in South Africa. E-rea - Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone, Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone, 2020, 18.1. hal-03225904 HAL Id: hal-03225904 https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03225904 Submitted on 13 May 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives| 4.0 International License E-rea Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone 18.1 | 2020 1. Reconstructing early-modern religious lives: the exemplary and the mundane / 2. Another Vision of Empire. Henry Rider Haggard’s Modernity and Legacy Henry Rider Haggard’s Nordicism? When Black Vikings fight alongside White Zulus in South Africa Gilles TEULIÉ Electronic version URL: https://journals.openedition.org/erea/10251 DOI: 10.4000/erea.10251 ISBN: ISSN 1638-1718 ISSN: 1638-1718 Publisher Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone Brought to you by Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) Electronic reference Gilles TEULIÉ, “Henry Rider Haggard’s Nordicism? When Black Vikings fight alongside White Zulus in South Africa”, E-rea [Online], 18.1 | 2020, Online since 15 December 2020, connection on 14 May 2021. -
107-128 Andrew Lang, Comparative Anthropology
http://akroterion.journals.ac.za ANDREW LANG, COMPARATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CLASSICS IN THE AFRICAN ROMANCES OF RIDER HAGGARD J L Hilton (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban) The long-standing friendship between Andrew Lang (1844-1912)1 and Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925)2 is surely one of the most intriguing literary relationships of the Victorian era.3 Lang was a pre-eminent literary critic and his support for Haggard’s earliest popular romances, such as King Solomon’s mines (1885) and She (1887), helped to establish them as leading models of the new genre of imperial adventure fiction.4 Lang and Haggard co-authored The world’s desire (1890)5 and the ideas of Lang, who was also a brilliant Classics scholar, can be seen in many of Haggard’s works. There are some significant similarities between the two men: both were approximate contemporaries who lived through the most aggressive phase of British imperialism, both were highly successfully writers who earned their living by their pens, both wrote prolifically and fluently on a wide 1 On Andrew Lang, see Donaldson 2004:453-456, Langstaff 1978, De Cocq 1968, Gordon 1928, and, above all, Green 1946. 2 The standard biographies of Rider Haggard are Etherington 1984, and Cohen 1960, somewhat dated, but very well written, but note also the more specialised studies of Stiebel 2009, 2001, Coan 2007, 2000, 1997, Monsman 2006, Pocock 1993, Fraser 1998, Vogelsberger 1984, Higgins 1981, Lewis 1984:128-132, Ellis 1978, and Bursey 1973. I owe special thanks to the local experts on Haggard, Lindy Stiebel and Stephen Coan. -
Rider Haggard's Short Stories
University of Wollongong Research Online University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016 University of Wollongong Thesis Collections 1991 Telling tales: Rider Haggard's short stories Michael Arrighi University of Wollongong Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses University of Wollongong Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. The University does not authorise you to copy, communicate or otherwise make available electronically to any other person any copyright material contained on this site. You are reminded of the following: This work is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this work may be reproduced by any process, nor may any other exclusive right be exercised, without the permission of the author. Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. A reproduction of material that is protected by copyright may be a copyright infringement. A court may impose penalties and award damages in relation to offences and infringements relating to copyright material. Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong. Recommended Citation Arrighi, Michael, Telling tales: Rider Haggard's short stories, Master of Arts (Hons.) thesis, Department of English, University of Wollongong, 1991. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/2200 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. -
SPIRITUALITY in the FICTION of HENRY RIDER HAGGARD a Thesis
SPIRITUALITY IN THE FICTION OF HENRY RIDER HAGGARD A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY of RHODES UNIVERSITY By JOHN SENIOR December 2003 ABSTRACT Neither an unquestioning support for British imperialism nor a personal pre-Jungian philosophy were the driving forces behind Rider Haggard’s beliefs or his literature. These two concerns were secondary to the author’s fascination with the supernatural, a theme prominent in his era, but less so in our own. A declining faith in European religion provided the dominant focal point in Haggard’s work. Although there are important overtones of imperial concern and indeed points of Jungian significance in the texts, these are generally subservient to an intensive wide-ranging spiritual discourse. The place of Haggard’s work in history and its literary merit are thus misunderstood when his spiritualism is not taken into account. No analysis of the author’s work can be complete without first coming to terms with his spiritual ideas and then with their impact on other topics of significance to both the author and audiences of his day. The spiritual or religious aspect of his writing has been largely ignored because of its subtle nature and its relative unfashionability throughout most of the twentieth century in the critical and intellectual climate of the Western world. However, in the Victorian era, under the materialist impact of Darwin, Marx and industrialization, Europe's Christian God was pushed from centre stage, creating widespread spiritual hunger and anguish. In the resulting religious vacuum Haggard's overtures were of particular significance to his audience. -
The Secret Agent : a Simple Tale
a cr CO > 30 I m =0 COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS TAUCHNITZ EDITION. .VOL. 3995. THE SECRET AGENT. BY JOSEPH CONRAD. IN ONE VOLUME. TAUCHN1TZ EDITION. By the same Author, AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS . TALES OF UNREST THE SECRET AGENT A SIMPLE TALE JOSEPH ICONRAD AUTHOR OF "AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS," ETC. COPYRIGHT EDITION L^Z I P Z I G D TAUCHNITZ 1907. Annex THE SECRET AGENT. i. MR. VERLOC, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr. Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law. The shop was small, and so was the house. It was one of those grimy brick houses which existed in large quantities before the era of reconstruction dawned upon London. The shop was a square box of a place, with the front glazed in small panes. In the daytime the door remained closed; in the evening it stood discreetly but suspiciously ajar. The window contained photographs of more or less undressed dancing girls; nondescript packages in wrappers like patent medicines; closed yellow paper envelopes, very flimsy, and marked two-and-six in heavy black figures; a few numbers of ancient French comic publications hung across a string as if to dry; a dingy blue china bowl, a casket of black wood, bottles of marking ink, and rubber stamps; a few books, with titles hinting at impropriety; a 6 THE SECRET AGENT. -
2020 | 5781 1 It Is a Fearful Thing to Love ❦ What Death Can Touch
2020 | 5781 1 It is a fearful thing to love ❦ what death can touch. A fearful thing to love, hope, to dream: to be – to be, and oh! to lose. A thing for fools this, and a holy thing, a holy thing to love. For your life has lived in me, your laugh once lifted me, your word was gift to me. To remember this brings painful joy. ‘Tis a human thing, love, a holy thing, to love what death has touched. —Chaim Stern At Yizkor, our sacred hour of remembrance, we recall our loved ones ❦ who are no longer sitting beside us. We yearn to hear their voices once more, to complete an unfinished conversation, to share another meal or milestone. Even in our pain, we know that deep sadness is a reflection of deep love. Even in our pain, we know we were blessed – to have had a love so big for as long, or as unfairly short – as we did. Our tradition very intentionally offers fixed times for communal remembrance. Each of us may call someone different to mind, but we are united in memory. May the memories of our cherished family, friends and fellow congregants inspire us to “endow our fleeting days with abiding worth” and to make our life a blessing to those who will come after us. It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch. But a Holy thing, to love. And to Remember. —Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl 2 3 To the Departed ❦ ToThe the departed Departed whom we now remember have entered into the peace of life eternal. -
H. Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali Trilogy: a Revisionist Approach to Haggard’S African Fiction
1 H. Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali trilogy: A Revisionist Approach to Haggard’s African Fiction. By Kathryn C. S. Simpson Centre for Literature and Writing Edinburgh Napier University A Doctoral Thesis Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy from Edinburgh Napier University November 2016 2 Abstract The history that H. Rider Haggard writes about in his imperial adventure romance fiction is neither collusive nor consensual with the Zulu who are often the focus of his novels. He writes a complex colonial narrative that characterises the Zulu as a proud and mythic, yet ultimately doomed, race. His early twentieth century trilogy, Zikali, is unique in that he uses the three books, Marie, Child of Storm and Finished, to narrate three pivotal events in the nineteenth century history of the Zulu Kingdom. In Zikali, he simultaneously propounds the legitimacy of the colonial endeavour, so effectively that he rewrites history, to ensure the primacy of the Englishman in nineteenth century Southern Africa historiography, whilst aggrandising the Zulu kingdom. This reframing of the colonial narrative—to suit the Western interloper—would be evidence of what is a standard trope within imperial adventure romance fiction, were it not for the fact that Haggard is ambivalent in his imperialism. He is both recorder and creator of imperial history, bewailing the demise of the Zulu Kingdom whilst validating the importance of the role of the colonial white Englishman; he senselessly kills hundreds of natives within his books, yet privileges the Zulu. Referencing one of the primary motivational sources in Haggard’s own colonial experience, Theophilus Shepstone, I propose to show Haggard’s sublimation of Shepstone’s ideas into his own African Arcadian romances, and his creation of a Zulu historiography, which would go on to be lauded by the early South African National Native Congress as being one of the foundations of early twentieth century native socio-political self-fashioning.