The Savage in Literature: Representations of 'primitive' society in English fiction 1858-1920Routledge, 28.07.2016 - 222 Seiten First published in 1975, this study is concerned with the representation of non-European people in English popular fiction in the period from 1858-1920. It examines the developments in thinking about people across the world and shows how they affected writers’ views of evolution, race, heredity and of the life of the so-called ‘primitive’ man. This book will be of interest to those studying 19th century literature. |
Inhalt
The English abroad | |
classification scientific | |
hierarchy and racial theory | |
Heredity and environment | |
Notes | |
Primitive politics in popular literature | |
Primitive religion in popular literature | |
Bibliography | |
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A. E. W. Mason adventure Allan Quatermain anthropological anthropologists apes attempts attitudes Ballantyne believed British Burroughs Cairns cannibalism century character chief Christian civilised colour conflict contemporary Coral Island culture Curtin customs D. H. Lawrence describes despotism detail Dick Doyle Edgar Rice Burroughs emphasise England English Englishman environment European evolution exotic lands framework Frazer Gilson heritage hero hierarchy human ibid ideas image of primitive Indian inferior inherited John Buchan jungle King Solomon's Mines Kipling Kipling's Laputa live Maugham missionary Mitford monogenists moral native nature Negro nineteenth nineteenth-century noble savage novels paradise permission to quote political polygenist popular fiction popular literature popular writers Prester John pygmies races racial reader realise religion religious represented Rider Haggard romantic Sanders scientific servant Shere Ali social society South Africa stereotypes story strange suggest superiority superstition survival symbol Tabu Tarzan theme theory thought tradition travellers tribes Umslopogaas University Press Victorian Wallace witch-doctor Zulu