num_pages: 112
description: 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 andArchaeology. Starting with a discussion of the nature of romance, it goes on to interpret the encounters with lost or buried pasts. By describing encounters with remote places and times, so it argues, these authors were asking their readers disconcerting questions about humankind, and about theirown culture's institutions and beliefs. The book ends by considering the implications of such a view for the whole colonial enterprise.
language: English
title: Victorian Quest Romance: Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle
titlecomplete: Victorian Quest Romance: Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle (Writers and Their Work)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Liverpool University Press