Reputation and legacy H. Rider Haggard

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vanity fair, 1887


haggard s stories still read today. ayesha, female protagonist of she, has been cited prototype psychoanalysts such sigmund freud (in interpretation of dreams) , carl jung. epithet must obeyed used british author john mortimer in rumpole of bailey series private name lead character uses wife, hilda, before whom trembles @ home (despite fact barrister skill in court). haggard s lost world genre influenced popular american pulp writers such edgar rice burroughs, robert e. howard, talbot mundy, philip josé farmer, , abraham merritt. allan quatermain, adventure hero of king solomon s mines , sequel allan quatermain, template american character indiana jones, featured in films raiders of lost ark, indiana jones , temple of doom, indiana jones , last crusade, , kingdom of crystal skull. quatermain has gained recent popularity being main character in league of extraordinary gentlemen.


graham greene, in essay haggard, stated, enchantment writer exercised; fixed pictures in our minds thirty years have been unable wear away. haggard praised in 1965 roger lancelyn green, 1 of oxford inklings, writer of consistently high level of literary skill , sheer imaginative power , co-originator robert louis stevenson of age of story tellers.


the first chapter of book people of mist credited inspiring motto of royal air force (formerly royal flying corps), per ardua ad astra.


rider haggard has been critiqued perpetuating negative stereotypes non-europeans. instance, in canonical book decolonizing mind, ngugi wa thiong o refers haggard 1 of geniuses of racism. kenyan author , academic micere mugo wrote in 1973 reading description of old african woman in rider haggard s king solomon s mines had long time made feel mortal terror whenever encountered old african women.








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