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1 online resource |
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Cover; Front Matter; Half title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter Int-7; Introduction; Chapter One The Sexual Imperative; Chapter Two: The Origins Of Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Fictional Writing; Romance and Realism; The Attractions for Haggard of Romance Writing; Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Perseverance with His Novels; Doctor Therne; Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Attitude towards Writing; Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Early Life; Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Relationship with His Father; Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Relationship with His Mother; Lilly Jackson; Johanna Ford; Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Wife, Louisa Margitson; Agnes Barber |
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ConclusionChapter Three: The Early Novels (1884â#x80;#x93;95): Youthful Anger; Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Contemporary Biographical Experiences; Dawn and Its Biographical Resonances; The Witchâ#x80;#x99;s Head and Its Biographical Resonances; Colonel Quaritch V.C. and Its Biographical Resonances; Joan Haste and Its Biographical Resonances; The Stereotypical Nature of Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Male and Female Characters; Sexually Potent and Sexually Vulnerable Women, and Their Roots in Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Biography; Feminine Sexual Vulnerability; The Punishment of Disruptive Women; The Destructive Impact upon Men of Desirable but Benign Women |
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Menâ#x80;#x99;s Share of the Blame for Their Sexual ExcessesThe Consequences of the Sexual Imperative: Sexual Jealousy, Moral Disintegration and Violence; The Sins of the Father; Consolatory and Redemptive Women; Negative Depictions of Marriage; Spiritual Love and Love in an Afterlife; Conclusions; Chapter Four: The New Woman, Female Self-Sacrifice And Spirituality (1887â#x80;#x93;1901); Jess and Its Biographical Resonances; Beatrice and Its Biographical Overtones; The New Woman; Jess and Beatrice as Sexually Passionate and Sexually Potent Women; The Sexually Passionate Women of Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Romances |
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Jess and Beatriceâ#x80;#x99;s Impact upon Their LoversThe Moral Dilemmas in Jess, Beatrice and Joan Haste; What Happens Between the Lovers in Jess and Beatrice; Moral Judgements and the Drift of the Subtext; The Spirituality of Jess and Beatrice; Conclusion; Chapter Five: Spiritual Love And Sexual Renunciation (1899â#x80;#x93;1908); Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Contemporary Biography; The Contemporary Interest in Spiritualism; Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Experience with Aspects of Spiritualism and His Fascination with the Concept of an Afterlife; Stella Fregelius and Its Biographical Resonances |
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The Way of the Spirit and Its Biographical ResonancesThe Question of Celibacy; The Capacities and Limitations of Spirituality and Spiritual Intimacy; Female Power and Female Divinity; Spiritual Communication between Lovers; The Reunion of Lovers in an Afterlife; Communication with the Dead; Conclusions; Chapter Six: The Final Fiction: Spiritual Consolation And The Dictates Of The Sexual Imperative (1909â#x80;#x93;30); Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Contemporary Biography; Love Eternal and Its Biographical Resonances; Mary of Marion Isle and Its Biographical Resonances |
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The Sexual Potency of Women: Representations of Female Sexuality in Haggardâ#x80;#x99;s Late Fiction |
| Summary |
"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 centre 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 recognised"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925 fast |
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Sexual ethics in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Sex in literature
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Sexual ethics in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781783087648 |
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1783087641 |
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9781783087655 |
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178308765X |
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