The Day's Work: Kipling and the Idea of Sacrifice

by Professor John Coates

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This study explores ways in which Kipling addressed a personal and historical crisis and offers a reading of the diverse strategies he used to sustain a threatened ideology and an embattled elite. It concentrates especially on Kipling's moving and subtle treatments of concepts of duty and sacrifice. The book is a critical study that pursues the growing contemporary interest in the shaping of texts by politics and ideology.
  • ISBN10 083863754X
  • ISBN13 9780838637548
  • Publish Date 1 January 1997
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Associated University Presses
  • Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 136
  • Language English