Reviews
The Broadview edition of She represents a benchmark in Rider Haggard studies. Situating She within a broad array of cultural documents on race, gender, empire, and archaeology, Andrew M. Stauffer has created an invaluable resource for contextualizing this fascinating adventure story within the ambulatory scope of the late-Victorian scientific and geographical imaginary. This edition will provide students, scholars, and the general reader alike with a sound foundation for reading (and rereading) Haggard's classic novel., Professor Stauffer's editing is an exemplary case of textual stewardship: great care without imposition. His introduction is not only authoritative and lucid but stylistically engaging, as energetic as the novel itself-an ideal introduction for first-time readers. The appendix topics are exactly what is needed, and the materials included provide an excellent context. The selection of non-fiction pieces by Haggard himself on questions of genre, imperialism, archaeology, and gender roles provides especially valuable insights into the author, the novel, and the times.
Table of Content
Preface Introduction H. Rider Haggard: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text List of Illustrations She: A History of Adventure Appendix A: Victorian Critical Reception Pall Mall Gazette(4 January 1887) The Literary World(7 January 1887) Public Opinion(14 January 1887) The Queen(15 January 1887) The Academy(15 January 1887) The Spectator(15 January 1887) H. Rider Haggard, Spectator (22 January 1887) Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine(February 1887) H. Rider Haggard, "About Fiction," Contemporary Review(February 1887) From Augustus M. Moore, "Rider Haggard and 'The New School of Romance,'" Time (May 1887) Appendix B: Victorian Archaeology: Mummies and Lost Cities From H.G. Tomkins, The Great Discovery of Royal Mummies at Deir el-Bahari(1882) "Royal Mummies Recently Unbandaged at the Boulak Museum," Graphic (31 July 1886) From E.L.Wilson, "Finding Pharaoh," Century Magazine(May 1887) From H. Rider Haggard, "Preface" to A.Wilmot, Monomotapa (Rhodesia), Its Monuments and itsHistory(1896) From James Bryce, "Out of the Darkness--Zimbabwe," Impressions of South Africa(1897) From G. Elliot Smith, "The Mummy of Queen Nsikhonsou," The Royal Mummies(1912) From H. Rider Haggard, "Egypt," The Days of My Life(1926) Appendix C: Race and Empire From Robert Knox, The Races of Men(1862) From James Hunt, On the Negro's Place in Nature(1863) From Charles H. Pearson, National Life and Character(1893) From Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution(1894) From C. De Thierry, Imperialism (1898) Appendix D: The New Woman From "Beauty is Power," Essays in Defence of Women(1868) From John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women(1869) From Olive Schreiner, "Three Dreams in a Desert," Dreams (1891) From Sarah Grand, "The New Aspect of the Woman Question," North American Review(March 1894) From H. Rider Haggard, "A Man's View of Woman," African Review of Mining, Finance, and Commerce(September 1894) From Hugh E.M. Stutfield, "The Psychology of Feminism," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine(January 1897) Appendix E: Major Revisions for the First English Edition (1887) Works Cited and Recommended Reading
