The Heritage of Hastur | Literary Precedents
Bradley's antecedents are not so much the swashbuckling heroic epic as they are the romance literatures, especially those with a medieval flavor. Here, the heroic code of the sword and a masculine milieu is replaced with a more civilized, less barbarian culture, settled rather than nomadic, valuing civility, gentleness, courtesy, and, finally, love in the sense not of possessive conquest, but of comradeship. Although the journey and the quest are present, the setting is towns and villages, rather than open territory. Adversaries are humans, not monsters-the sociopolitical, rather than...
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