Rider Haggard and the Fiction of Empire: A Critical Study of British Imperial FictionWhile Rider Haggard's stories have been popular with several generations of readers, this was the first study to examine the place of Empire in his writing and to draw out its related political and literary implications. Dr Katz argues that the romance adventure carried an ideological burden for Haggard and that he was one of a number of imperial minded writers among them R. L. Stevenson, Andrew Lang, W. E. Henley and Kipling who shared a similar