Rudyard Kipling

by Janet Montefiore

Rudyard Kipling was a Victorian and an early modernist, a disciplinarian imperialist who sympathised with children and outlaws, a globe-trotter who mythologised
'Old England', and a world-famous author whom intellectuals despised. The central theme of this book is the way his work and its reception are both fissured and energised by these contradictions. This thorough study initially discusses Kipling's ambivalent knowing attitude to unknowable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746308272
• ISBN13: 9780746308271
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"