Annotated She

<p>When it appeared in 1887 H. Rider Haggard's <i>She </i>caused a sensation and became one of the best-selling novels of the nineteenth century. The idea of a powerful woman endowed with immortal beauty and penetrating intellect ruling a savage people among the ruins of a vanished civilization in the heart of Africa captivated Victorian readers. Freud recommended the book to his patients. Jung equated its imaginative power with Dante's <i>Inferno </i>and Wagner's <i>Ring. </i>Continuing to fascinate later twentieth-century readers the book has never been out of print and has won new audiences through numerous film versions. <br /><br />This is the first annotated edition of <i>She. </i> Locating the novel within the context of late-Victorian fiction and British imperialism Norman Etherington provides biographical information regarding Haggard and elucidates references in the text of this archaeological romance.</p>