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Oswald Bastable is a fictional character first created by E. Nesbit. and appearing in ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'', ''The Wouldbegoods'', ''New Treasure Seekers'' and ''Oswald Bastable''. More than half a century later, Michael Moorcock. used the same name for a significantly different character who is the protagonist in ''The Warlord of the Air'', ''The Land Leviathan'', ''The Steel Tsar'', and makes an appearance also in other stories. Moorcock stated on the forums of his website〔http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?s=5e48d2072b442bd034444acebbe2e1c2&t=7713〕 that his use of the name "Oswald Bastable" was not supposed to directly link his character with Nesbit's (i.e. to make his novels into sequels). Rather, he said that he was trying to connect with a particular "Fabian 'liberal' imperialism, still fundamentally paternalistic but well-meaning" which he felt belonged to Nesbit's era. Edith Nesbit, who originally created the Bastable character, and her husband Hubert Bland, had been among the founders and leading members of the Fabian Society - whose proclaimed aim was to eventually get to Socialism, but in a gradual non-revolutionary way. It can be said that in practice this made its members into proponents of a continued, reformed British Empire. Moorcock's Bastable books explore various variants on the theme of Imperialism and Colonialism: the British and other colonial empires persisting into the later 20th Centuries, or conversely collapsing already in the early 1900s, and so on. ==In the Nesbit books== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oswald Bastable」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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