ERBzine 6678:

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Volume 6678

The Prudish Prurience of
H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs
Part Two in ERBzine 6679

by Richard Dale Mullen
Indiana State University ~ Terre Haute
Riverside Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 1, August 1973, pp. 4-19
From the David Sorochty Collection
Scanned and Formatted for Web Display by Bill Hillman

While Victorian prudery was a real enough phenomenon,
its extent and effects on both serious and popular literature have been widely misunderstood
-- as, for example, in the following words by Kingsley Amis:

Space-opera . . . is in its earlier Edgar Rice Burroughs form as cold-blooded as a fairy story: a George Eliot lovescene suddenly interpolated would seem dangerously modern and in questionable taste. Later space opera of the galactic-hoodlum sort does, on occasion, borrow a bit of sadism from its private-eye analogue, but for the most part it remains hardly less decorous than Superman. ~ New Maps of Hell

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