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literature of the period "... literature
... raking us more
familiar with India, Egypt, Africa and 13urrnah than with
the Ilost of Ireland or the Highlands of Scotland, ", (1)
The African scene, - the Mahdist rule in the Sudan,, the
Vile campaign of 1896-98, the Emin expedition, the Matabolo
Wars, all evolved a mans of novels# accounts of African
exploration and of African warfare, In many cocoa the
fact woos more exciting than the fiction, though G. A. IIenty
among popular novelists expressed the mood of adventure
and action which came to be associated with Imperial
enterprise The titles of hin books, The dash for Khnrtoum,
With Kitchener in the Soudan, With Roberta to Pretoria,
showed that the novels were based on the most significant
Imperialist evontz, - the myths of Imperialism, evoking
Hajuba dill or Gordon waiting at Khartoum for the relief
expedition which never arrived. Imperialism wan not
defended so much as taken for granted, an a Honty character
remarked of the fall of Khartoum "Our fathers used to be
proud to call themselves Engliahmon, but by Jove there in
very little reason for us to be. That Boer business was
(1), Forte tnirhtlX_ Revier
, tluguat 1900, Jel, 11uirheadt "What
mperialian meane&ý
p. 182.