The romance as rhetorical dissociation: The purification of imperialism inking Solomon's mines
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- other
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Vol. 67 (3) , 259-269
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638109383571
Abstract
That the romance can be employed for rhetorical purposes other than reaffirming a culture's values is illustrated by H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, a romance that purifies imperialism by dissociating its “appearance” as exploitation from its “reality” as the establishment of justice and the resulting transformation of identity.Keywords
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