In this essay I argue that the late Victorian and early Edwardian novelist Henry Rider Haggard had a distinct eco-consciousness that was reminiscent of twenty-first century posthumanist philosophies as early as the 1880’s. Writing his “imperial romances” in the wake of the beginnings of what is now called the Anthropocene age, Haggard observed and understood the changing relationships between the human society and the more-than-human world in this historical period. In a manner that would be unexpected of an author widely labeled as ‘a man of his times’—and therefore a pro-imperial propagandist—in postcolonial literary criticism, he was critical of the anthropocentric ways of western civilization. Ranging from a Darwinian notion of the onen...
The long-standing friendship between Andrew Lang (1844-1912)1 and Henry RiderHaggard (1856-1925)2 is...
Herbert’s Poor Fellow My Country (1975) anticipated edgy twenty-first century national conversations...
In this thesis my dual purpose is to account for Haggard's lasting popularity and to examine hithert...
This thesis focuses on H. Rider Haggard’s fictional use of philanthropic colonisation to illustrate ...
This thesis focuses on H. Rider Haggard’s fictional use of philanthropic colonisation to illustrate ...
Nineteenth Century novelists frequently picture life beyond and across the edges of humanity—figurat...
This paper analyses Rider Haggard’s first major work, Cetywayo and his White Neighbours or Remarks o...
The first generation of humans to live in a world indelibly marked by industrialism came of age in t...
A short study of ecological utopias in literature. After a brief consideration of the pastoral tradi...
A Writer of Empire? H. Rider Haggard, the Zulu, and British Imperialism examines the major nonficti...
This thesis utilizes concepts of the ecocritical theory of deep ecology to elucidate non-anthropocen...
How might literary and cultural spheres intersect with the Anthropocene, the epoch — however defined ...
This essay reads Hanya Yanagihara’s first novel as an example of postcolonial dark archaeology. Draw...
International audienceThis article surveys the question of racism and racial representations in the ...
This thesis examines representations of exotic animals in Victorian and Edwardian adventure fiction ...
The long-standing friendship between Andrew Lang (1844-1912)1 and Henry RiderHaggard (1856-1925)2 is...
Herbert’s Poor Fellow My Country (1975) anticipated edgy twenty-first century national conversations...
In this thesis my dual purpose is to account for Haggard's lasting popularity and to examine hithert...
This thesis focuses on H. Rider Haggard’s fictional use of philanthropic colonisation to illustrate ...
This thesis focuses on H. Rider Haggard’s fictional use of philanthropic colonisation to illustrate ...
Nineteenth Century novelists frequently picture life beyond and across the edges of humanity—figurat...
This paper analyses Rider Haggard’s first major work, Cetywayo and his White Neighbours or Remarks o...
The first generation of humans to live in a world indelibly marked by industrialism came of age in t...
A short study of ecological utopias in literature. After a brief consideration of the pastoral tradi...
A Writer of Empire? H. Rider Haggard, the Zulu, and British Imperialism examines the major nonficti...
This thesis utilizes concepts of the ecocritical theory of deep ecology to elucidate non-anthropocen...
How might literary and cultural spheres intersect with the Anthropocene, the epoch — however defined ...
This essay reads Hanya Yanagihara’s first novel as an example of postcolonial dark archaeology. Draw...
International audienceThis article surveys the question of racism and racial representations in the ...
This thesis examines representations of exotic animals in Victorian and Edwardian adventure fiction ...
The long-standing friendship between Andrew Lang (1844-1912)1 and Henry RiderHaggard (1856-1925)2 is...
Herbert’s Poor Fellow My Country (1975) anticipated edgy twenty-first century national conversations...
In this thesis my dual purpose is to account for Haggard's lasting popularity and to examine hithert...