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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Rudyard Kipling"”.
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A new pattern in a shift of light : a study of Rudyard Kipling as a 20th century writer
For most of the hundred years or so that Rudyard Kipling's works have been available in print, they have suffered under a certain amount of critical disapprobation. In many cases such criticism has been politically motivated, particularly among writers and critics of the Modernist movement. This is …
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The Fantasy of an Anglo-Indian Man: Imperialism and Colonialism in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling is considered to be one of the most popular but also one of the most controversial figures in British literature, most notably for being a colonialist. As an Anglo-Indian man, Kipling travelled between the two nations of Britain and India, and his difference from the native Indians …
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Bureaucracy and its Liberal Imaginings: Victorian Aesthetics of the State
… the works of Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, that we can find any insight into our own perceptions, perplexities, perturbations about the underlying tensions that organize (or disorganize) liberal society as a whole. Which is to say, bureaucracy, while on the …
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Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity
… Empire’s champions, including writers like Rudyard Kipling, Sir H. Rider Haggard, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I examine Kipling’s consideration of empire, progress, and heroic masculinity in Puck of Pook’s Hill, where he explores these issues in the context of medieval English history. I …
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The development of British First World War remembrance on the battlefield from 1914 to 1929
… books published by four influential authors – Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, John Masefield and Harry Lauder. Section C turns to the experiences of individual travellers, and the extent to which they followed or departed from the itineraries and experiences to which these published sources …
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‘They all looked such good meat’: Cannibal Metaphors in Early Twentieth Century English Fiction
… Fiction’, looks at fiction by H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad. Cannibalism in these tales makes a textual intervention to consolidate stories of fictional protagonists, thus serving as an imaginative spur to European heroism. Chapter Three, ‘Cannibal …
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Propaganda and Poetry during the Great War.
<p>During the Great War, poetry played a more significant role in the war effort than articles and pamphlets. A campaign of extraordinary language filled with abstract and spiritualized words and phrases concealed the realities of the War. Archaic language and lofty phrases hid the horrible truth …
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Tommy Atkins, War Office Reform and the Social and Cultural Presence of the Late-Victorian Army in Britain, c.1868-1899
This thesis examines the development of the soldier in late-Victorian Britain in light of the movement to rehabilitate the public image of the ordinary ranks initiated by the Cardwell-Childers Reforms. Venerated in popular culture, Tommy Atkins became a symbol of British imperial strength and …