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Kipling and Orientalism (Routledge Revivals)

Kipling and Orientalism (Routledge Revivals)

Moore-Gilbert, B. J.

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Series: Routledge Revivals

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1138799211
ISBN13: 9781138799219
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 5 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

First published in 1986, this book sets Kipling firmly in the historical context not only of contemporary India but of prior Anglo-Indian writers about India. Despite his enthusiastic reception in England as 'revealer of the East', in India he seems to have been regarded as just one more Anglo-Indian writer. The author demonstrates the traditionalism of Kipling's use of the themes of Anglo-Indian fiction - themes such as the 'White Man's grave', domestic instability, frustration and loneliness. In particular, Kipling is shown to be writing in a strongly conservative idiom, concentrating on the role of the British hierarchy as the determining factor in a response to India, on British insecurity and fears of a repeat of 1857 mutiny, and regarding Indian institutions only in so far as they represented a threat to British rule. Conservative critiques of liberalism are also discussed.

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