British colonialism provided a rich vein of material for the
novelists of the first half of the 20th century. This study,
originally published in 1968, looks at five writers and their
reaction to the Empire: Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Joseph
Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene. It shows how the romantic
adventure stories of Kipling's early days, in which the indigenous
population plays almost no part, gave rise to the much more
important novels of spiritual and moral conflict in which the
stereotyped values of Empire are questioned. The decline of
colonialism from its apogee in the 1880s within a relatively short
period makes the novels discussed a compact group, so that not only
is the use of colonial material closely studied, but its impact on
the novelists themselves emerges clearly. This is an important
study of a major literary theme, linking modern literature and
modern history at a vital point.
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