Chapter
Chapter One The Sexual Imperative
Chapter Two: The Origins Of Haggard’s Fictional Writing
The Attractions for Haggard of Romance Writing
Haggard’s Perseverance with His Novels
Haggard’s Attitude towards Writing
Haggard’s Relationship with His Father
Haggard’s Relationship with His Mother
Haggard’s Wife, Louisa Margitson
Chapter Three: The Early Novels (1884–95): Youthful Anger
Haggard’s Contemporary Biographical Experiences
Dawn and Its Biographical Resonances
The Witch’s Head and Its Biographical Resonances
Colonel Quaritch V. C. and Its Biographical Resonances
Joan Haste and Its Biographical Resonances
The Stereotypical Nature of Haggard’s Male and Female Characters
Sexually Potent and Sexually Vulnerable Women, and Their Roots in Haggard’s Biography
Feminine Sexual Vulnerability
The Punishment of Disruptive Women
The Destructive Impact upon Men of Desirable but Benign Women
Men’s Share of the Blame for Their Sexual Excesses
The Consequences of the Sexual Imperative: Sexual Jealousy, Moral Disintegration and Violence
Consolatory and Redemptive Women
Negative Depictions of Marriage
Spiritual Love and Love in an Afterlife
Chapter Four: The New Woman, Female Self-Sacrifice And Spirituality (1887–1901)
Jess and Its Biographical Resonances
Beatrice and Its Biographical Overtones
Jess and Beatrice as Sexually Passionate and Sexually Potent Women
The Sexually Passionate Women of Haggard’s Romances
Jess and Beatrice’s Impact upon Their Lovers
The Moral Dilemmas in Jess, Beatrice and Joan Haste
What Happens Between the Lovers in Jess and Beatrice; Moral Judgements and the Drift of the Subtext
The Spirituality of Jess and Beatrice
Chapter Five: Spiritual Love And Sexual Renunciation (1899–1908)
Haggard’s Contemporary Biography
The Contemporary Interest in Spiritualism
Haggard’s Experience with Aspects of Spiritualism and His Fascination with the Concept of an Afterlife
Stella Fregelius and Its Biographical Resonances
The Way of the Spirit and Its Biographical Resonances
The Capacities and Limitations of Spirituality and Spiritual Intimacy
Female Power and Female Divinity
Spiritual Communication between Lovers
The Reunion of Lovers in an Afterlife
Communication with the Dead
Chapter Six: The Final Fiction: Spiritual Consolation And The Dictates Of The Sexual Imperative (1909–30)
Haggard’s Contemporary Biography
Love Eternal and Its Biographical Resonances
Mary of Marion Isle and Its Biographical Resonances
The Sexual Potency of Women: Representations of Female Sexuality in Haggard’s Late Fiction
The Influence of the Great War upon Love Eternal and Certain of Haggard’s Contemporary Romances
Haggard’s Emphasis in His Fiction upon Spirituality and the Spiritual Union of Lovers
Reticence about Sex but Subtle Assertions of the Pull of the Sexual Imperative
Mutual Spirituality and the Divine and Eternal Aspects of Spiritual Love
The Reunion of Lovers in an Afterlife
The Dangers of Aspects of Spiritualism
Attempts to Communicate with the Dead
The Newness of Love Eternal
Male Ability to Survive Emotional Betrayals by Females
Criticism of the Established Church
Scrutiny of Marital Relationships
The Sexual Imperative and Sex Outside Marriage
Chapter Seven: Summation: A Personal Odyssey
Identical Concerns in Haggard’s Romances
Women in Haggard’s Fiction
Personal Issues in Haggard’s Fiction
The Close Similarities between Haggard’s Novels and Romances
The Integrity of Haggard’s Fiction
Colonel Quaritch V.C.: A Tale of Country Life (1888)
The Way of the Spirit (1906)
Mary of Marion Isle (1929)
Chapter One The Sexual Imperative
Chapter Two The Origins of Haggard’s Fictional Writing
Chapter Three The Early Novels (1884–95): Youthful Anger
Chapter Four The New Woman, Female Self-Sacrifice and Spirituality (1887–1901)
Chapter Five Spiritual Love and Sexual Renunciation (1899–1908)
Chapter Six The Final Fiction: Spiritual Consolation and the Dictates of the Sexual Imperative (1909–30)
Chapter Seven Summation: A Personal Odyssey
Primary Works and Editions Consulted
The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard
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