Lord Glenarvan

Lord Glenarvan is a fictional character that appears in Jules Verne's 1868 novel In Search of the Castaways and then briefly appears in The Mysterious Island (1875). He is a wealthy Scottish noble married to Lady Glenarvan.

Lord Edward Glenarvan
Voyages Extraordinaires character
Lord Glenarvan in Les Enfants du capitaine Grant
First appearance	Les Enfants du capitaine Grant (1868)
Last appearance	L'Île mystérieuse (1874)
Created by	Jules Verne
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Family	wife Lady Helena; cousin Major MacNabb
Nationality	Scottish

Fictional appearances

Lord Glenarvan owns a yacht called the Duncan, which he uses to help find Captain Grant of the Britannia, who is being sought by his children Robert and Mary. After many travels and misfortunes he and his crew eventually finds the captain in the conclusion of In Search of the Castaways.

In The Mysterious Island, Lord Glenarvan uses the Duncan to save castaways and the repentant criminal Tom Ayrton on the fictional Lincoln Island.

In Among the Cannibals, Lord Glenarvan threatens to kill his wife to prevent her from being taken captive by a group of Maori. Moffat interprets this scene as an example of the "European fear" of "the contamination and despoliation of pure and virtuous European women".^[1]

Reception

The character has been used to discuss European colonialism in literature.^[2][3] Russian playwright Mikhail Bulgakov used the character in a 1928 comedy, The Crimson Island, as a spoof of Western European colonialism.^[4][5]

See also

• Luss

References

1. Moffat 2011, p. 59.
2. Bongie, Chris (1991). Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle. Stanford University Press. pp. 1–3. ISBN 9780804765763. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
3. Barthes, Roland (2009). New Critical Essays. Northwestern University Press. p. 81. ISBN 9780810126411. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
4. Orlich, Ileana Alexandra (2017). Subversive Stages: Theater in Pre- and Post-Communist in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Central European University Press. pp. 63–67. ISBN 978-9633861165. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
5. Partridge, Helen Howard (1968). Comedy in the Early Works of Mikhail Bulgakov. Georgetown University. pp. 168–177. Retrieved 4 September 2020.

Sources

• Moffat, Kirstine (2011). "Five Imperial Adventures in the Waikato". Journal of New Zealand Literature (JNZL) (29): 37–65. ISSN 0112-1227. JSTOR 41410924.

External links

• In Search of the Castaways at Project Gutenberg