Re-imagining Africa: revisiting Rider Haggard’s legacy in modern times with particular reference to South Africa

Haggard’s significance as a barometer of his age as a popular writer and as a writer of interest for the modern age still holds true. This article revisits some of the themes of that statement and assesses Haggard’s ongoing legacy in the modern era. It will draw on my books Imagining Africa: landsca...

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Published inE-rea : Revue d'etudes anglophones Vol. 18; no. 18.1
Main Author STIEBEL, Lindy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone 15.12.2020
Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
Subjects
academic legacy
African romances
literary legacy
popular culture legacy
Rider Haggard
Rider Haggard
African romances
romances africaines
literary legacy
héritage littéraire
academic legacy
héritage académique
popular culture legacy
héritage dans la culture populaire
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Summary:Haggard’s significance as a barometer of his age as a popular writer and as a writer of interest for the modern age still holds true. This article revisits some of the themes of that statement and assesses Haggard’s ongoing legacy in the modern era. It will draw on my books Imagining Africa: landscape in H. Rider Haggard’s African romances (2001) and also on the Introduction to Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: H. Rider Haggard (2009), a commissioned volume, which also evaluated Haggard’s legacy both in terms of academic interest and popular culture in the later twentieth century. My interest in writing this current piece is to look again at Haggard a decade on and update my earlier findings with contemporary references to Haggard, in terms of his literary, popular culture and academic legacies.
ISSN:1638-1718
1638-1718
DOI:10.4000/erea.11011