Kipling and Orientalism (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Moore-Gilbert, B. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138799211 ISBN 13: 9781138799219

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Bart Moore-Gilbert is Reader in Postcolonial Studies and English at Goldsmiths' College, University of London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138799211
• ISBN 13: 9781138799219
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240