The empire threatened. Rider Haggard’s literature facing the decadence

Abstract

This paper analyzes the imperialist English literature from the perspective of the decline of the empire and the threat of the colonized. I have studied the work of Rider Haggard and especially one of his best-known novels that reflects very clearly these features: "She. A History of Adventures" (1887). With this novel, Haggard created a metaphor of the Western fear to the primitive world, although it was subject to his power: a world that threatened the solidity of Victorian England.

Keywords

• literatura inglesa
• gótico imperial
• imperialismo
• literatura popular
• haggar
• decadencia