A Victorian Gentleman in the Pharaoh’s Court: Christian Egyptosophy and Victorian Egyptology in the Romances of H. Rider Haggard by Magus Simon

“…The following article analyses the ways in which the developing field of Egyptology found its way into Victorian culture, more especially via the romances of H. Rider Haggard. It considers the process of acculturation in terms of the Christianizing tendency of a biblical archaeology which was looking for evidence of biblical narratives in opposition to Higher Criticism of the Bible. …”
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Il cuore spezzato di H. Rider Haggard: letteratura, amore e politica in Jess (1887) by Evander Ruthieri Da Silva

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A questão sul-africana: literatura, colonialismo e masculinidades em Marie (1912), de H. Rider Haggard by Evander Ruthieri da Silva Ruthieri da Silva

“…O escopo central do artigo converge na análise e problematização das relações entre colonialismo e masculinidade na produção literário-intelectual do romancista H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), com destaque para seu romance Marie (1912). …”
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Travelling Across the Colonial Frontier: Female Mobility and the Making of English National Identity in H. Rider Haggard’s Benita: An African Romance by Mutlu Elvan

“…Given his most famous account, “I can safely say that there is not a petticoat in the whole history” of his most well-known romance, King Solomon’s Mines (1885), H. Rider Haggard’s works have been mostly celebrated as significant examples of the representation of imperial masculinities in the late Victorian romance fiction. …”
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Ação política, trabalho e resistência africana nos diários de viagem de H. Rider Haggard (África do Sul, 1914) by Evander Ruthieri da Silva

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Re-imagining Africa: revisiting Rider Haggard’s legacy in modern times with particular reference to South Africa by Lindy STIEBEL

“…It will draw on my books Imagining Africa: landscape in H. Rider Haggard’s African romances (2001) and also on the Introduction to Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: H. …”
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Da Rider Haggard a Salgari :riscrivere l’Africa nell’era dei colonialismi. by Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato

“…I shall analyze how Salgari portrays Africa and the Africans in the era of colonial expansion and Imperialism, in La favorita del Mahdi, an exciting instant book set around the jihadist revolt in Sudan, in I drammi della schiavitù, a vivid and adventurous tale of the horrors of the slave trade, and finally in his personal rewriting of King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard, Le caverne dei diamanti.…”
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The Macabre on the Margins: A Study of the Fantastic Terrors of the Fin de Siècle by Maria Beville

“…With a view to discussing an important three-faceted example of marginality in literature whereby terror, the literary Fantastic and the fin de siècle period are understood as interconnected marginalia, this paper examines works such as Guy de Maupassant’s “Le Horla” and H. Rider Haggard’s She from an alternative critical perspective to that dominating current literary discourse. …”
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LOST WORLDS OF ANDROMEDA by Tomasz Z. Majkowski, Magdalena Kozyra

“…The paper offers a reading of Mass Effect: Andromeda (BioWare, 2017) vis-à-vis lost world romance (also dubbed “lost race romance”, or “imperial romance”), a late-Victorian era novelistic genre originating from H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines and serving as a major tool for British Empire propaganda and a source of early science-fiction conventions. …”
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King Solomon’s Mines on film: modernity in reverse? by Stephen COAN

“…There have been four feature films made under the title King Solomon’s Mines, each of them crediting H. Rider Haggard’s Victorian adventure novel published in 1885 as their source. …”
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'A Woman is a Woman, if She had been Dead Five Thousand Centuries!':Mummy Fiction, Imperialism and the Politics of Gender by Nolwenn Corriou

“…In the texts of H. Rider Haggard, Bram Stoker and H.D. Everett which constitute the corpus of this article, this encounter invariably turns into a love encounter, as the mummy sets about seducing the British archaeologist who violated her rest. …”
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Imperial infrastructure and spatial resistance in colonial literature (1880-1930) by Davies, D

“…This methodology is applied to a number of colonial authors including H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner, William Plomer and John Buchan in South Africa and Flora Annie Steel, E.M. …”

从《红礁画桨录》的“知识女性”形象看林纾女权观 = A study on Lin Shu's perspective of feminism : through the representation of the 'intellectual women' in his translation of "Beatrice"... by 黄盈芳 Ng, Ying Fang

“…In the preface of one of his translated novels, Beatrice, originally in English by H. Rider Haggard, Lin Shu stressed that the education of women must come before feminism; only when women are educated, can feminism be promoted. …”
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