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• W2134145163 abstract "In this dissertation I examine the historical novel Manly Pursuits (1999), by Ann Harries. The novel deals with the late nineteenth century in Oxford, England, and in particular the year 1899 in Cape Town. The focus of the novel is on Cecil John Rhodes and his entourage, and their obsession with empire, which culminates in the South African War in 1900. Featured characters include Chamberlain, Jameson, Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dodgson, John Ruskin and Olive Schreiner. The story is told through the first person narration of Wills, the only entirely fictional character. Wills is an Oxford don who has had dealings with these imperialists and who shares the same Victorian upper-middle-class upbringing as them. The Victorian society is the framework which is seen to have developed the class and gender-based values and imperialist thinking of Rhodes and his following. Using the theoretical framework of Michael Green’s concept of resistant form, (Novel Histories:1997), Harries’s novel is interpreted as showing resistance to this society and its values. Resistant form means accepting the reality of past events, yet showing resistance, through various fictional strategies, to the way these are or have been interpreted. As such the novel is showing resistance to imperialist thinking, the Anglo-Boer War, apartheid and all the resulting legacies for South Africa. In my analysis of the novel, I show that the characters, (including the narrator), which emerge from this Victorian society are sexually crippled and socially eccentric. Their repressed sexualities are expressed in the form of fetishes, which are often, and certainly in the case of Rhodes, metonymies for empire. The author, Ann Harries employs the use of parody to heighten the effect of these malfunctioning characters. The resultant humour allows for a send-up, a choice of resistant form through parody, irony, satire, and pathos, of the values and thinking of the time. In diminishing this society, resistance is being shown to the resulting impact on South Africa. In particular, the vision of Cecil Rhodes, as well as his milieu, is reappraised and the Rhodes legacy is" @default.
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• W2134145163 title "Parodic imagination and resistant form in historical fiction: A study of Ann Harries' manly pursuits" @default.
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