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- Title
Haggard’s Use of the Phoenician Analogy with Britain.
- Authors
Coates, John
- Abstract
In the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, several writers voiced their apprehensions about the state of the British Empire and the dangers they thought it faced by making comparisons between Britain and the Phoenician city of Tyre and the greatest of Tyre’s colonies, Carthage. This paper compares Rider Haggard’s use of this analogy in his novel Elissa or the Doom of Zimbabwe with other writers of his time who compared Britain to the Phoenicians. Haggard emerges as deeper, more wide-ranging and sophisticated in his use of the ‘Phoenician analogy’ than other writers who employed it.
- Subjects
ZIMBABWE; PHOENICIANS; BRITISH colonies; POLITICIANS; CARTHAGE (Extinct city)
- Publication
Cahiers Victoriens & Edouardiens, 2020, Issue 91, p1
- ISSN
0220-5610
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/cve.7672