{"product_id":"king-solomons-mines-9781551114392","title":"King Solomon's Mines","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen first published, \u003cem\u003eKing Solomon's Mines\u003c\/em\u003e (1885) was an enormous popular success. The narrative follows the explorations of Allan Quatermain, a fortune hunter who travels to Africa in search of ancient treasures and a lost fellow explorer. Written as an adventure story, the novel is also a late-Victorian imperial romance that illuminates the politics of British imperialist capitalism in 1870s and 1880s South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes contemporary reviews, other writings by Haggard on Africa and romance, and documents focusing on imperialism and diamond mining in late nineteenth-century South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScholars, students and general readers will welcome Gerald Monsman's new edition, which comes lavishly supplied with illuminating contextual documents. In a provocative introductory essay, Professor Monsman describes the mythopoeic ambition of \u003cem\u003eKing Solomon's Mines\u003c\/em\u003e by recovering its intellectual context in Victorian anthropology. Haggard sought to create an Africa of the imagination, more precious for the access it gave modern readers to their alienated psychic origins than for its material resources. Readers of this excellent new edition will find that the fictions of imperialism were richer and stranger than they had thought.\" - Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eH. Rider Haggard: A Brief Chronology\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKing Solomon’s Mines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Victorian Critical Reaction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Saturday Review\u003c\/em\u003e, 10 October 1885\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson, 1885\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e, 7 November 1885\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Literary World\u003c\/em\u003e, 23 January 1886\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGerard Manley Hopkins, 28 October 1886\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Dial\u003c\/em\u003e, May 1887\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Book Buyer\u003c\/em\u003e, August 1887\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Church Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e, January 1888\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eFortnightly Review\u003c\/em\u003e, 1 September 1888\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eForum\u003c\/em\u003e, May 1889\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Haggard on Africa and Romance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Notes on \u003cem\u003eKing Solomon’s Mines\u003c\/em\u003e” (1906)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Anecdote” (c. 1876)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“A Zulu War-Dance” (1877)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“About Fiction” (1877)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Historical Documents: Natives and Imperialists in South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFred Fynney, \u003cem\u003eZululand and the Zulus\u003c\/em\u003e (1880)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Ruskin, \u003cem\u003eLectures on Art\u003c\/em\u003e (1873)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCecil Rhodes,“Confession of Faith” (1877)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCecil Rhodes, \u003cem\u003eSpeeches\u003c\/em\u003e (1881-1900)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOlive Schreiner, \u003cem\u003eTrooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland\u003c\/em\u003e (1897)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOlive Schreiner, \u003cem\u003eThoughts on South Africa\u003c\/em\u003e (1890-92)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix D: Historical Documents: Spoils of Imperialism: Gold, Diamonds, and Ivory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bible, I Kings 10: 1-13\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eKebra Negast\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 14th Century)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Ophir of Scripture,” \u003cem\u003eThe Illustrated London News\u003c\/em\u003e, 11 January 1873\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHugh Mulleneux Walmsley, \u003cem\u003eThe Ruined Cities of Zulu Land\u003c\/em\u003e (1869)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOlive Schreiner, “Diamond Fields” (c. 1880)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrederick Courteney Selous, \u003cem\u003eA Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa\u003c\/em\u003e (1890)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited and Recommended Reading\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041304150359,"sku":"9781551114392","price":18.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551114392.jpg?v=1750949737","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/king-solomons-mines-9781551114392","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}