Kipling's Imperial Boy - Adolescence and Cultural Hybridity (Hardcover, New)


Kipling's Imperial Boy opens by examining the significance of boyhood in the evolution of European modernity. The first chapter shows how closely the figure of the adolescent (the "boy") is associated with questions of imperial expansion and consolidation. The chapters that follow take up Rudyard Kipling's fiction of the imperial boy, emphasizing the imaginative link between adolescence and cultural hybridity and offering detailed readings of The Jungle Book, Stalky & Co., and Kim.

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Kipling's Imperial Boy opens by examining the significance of boyhood in the evolution of European modernity. The first chapter shows how closely the figure of the adolescent (the "boy") is associated with questions of imperial expansion and consolidation. The chapters that follow take up Rudyard Kipling's fiction of the imperial boy, emphasizing the imaginative link between adolescence and cultural hybridity and offering detailed readings of The Jungle Book, Stalky & Co., and Kim.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Palgrave Macmillan

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

October 2000

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

2000

Authors

Dimensions

216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

192

Edition

New

ISBN-13

978-0-333-76104-5

Barcode

9780333761045

Categories

LSN

0-333-76104-9



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