Kipling the Trickster - Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kipling's Short Stories (Paperback, New edition)

This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling's short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling's characters, that of a superior knowledge acquired by friendship with a small male circle. This book engages with a long-standing critical tradition which treats the jokes as acts of vicarious revenge or symptoms of supposed defects in Kipling's personality, instead setting his use of the practical joke in the wider social context of his time. In this book Kipling's writing is examined for what it reveals about a complex, self-conscious but powerful range of values rather than what it is supposed to disguise or conceal. Although he endorsed British colonial rule, Kipling was frank about the slackness, endemic rule-breaking and second-rate nature of British rule in India. He also criticised some of the widespread cultural, religious and moral phenomena of his time, which he thought harmful. Many of his short stories contain an implied but serious criticism of Victorian beliefs, from attitudes to death-beds, and schoolboys to Positivism.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	John Coates
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	282
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-80079-341-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Promotions
LSN:	1-80079-341-3
Barcode:	9781800793415

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