Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Writers and Their Work (Paperb
ISBN 13 : 074630904X
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)
Book Synopsis Victorian Quest Romance by : Robert Fraser
Download or read book Victorian Quest Romance written by Robert Fraser and published by Writers and Their Work (Paperb. This book was released on 1998 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 romances of Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle as encounters with lost or buried pasts. By describing such 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 enterprize.