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Article: Constructing the Englishman in Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque.(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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ABSTRACT
Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque, subsequently published in From Sea to Sea (1900), were first published anonymously in Allahabad Pioneer from December 1887 to February 1888, and described his travels in the Native States of Rajputana. These letters, a professional assignment, nevertheless have a mood of holiday, and throughout them Kipling, consistently referring to himself in the third person as 'the Englishman', simultaneously celebrates, interrogates, and subverts the notion of his Englishness. In doing so he mourns, mocks, but at the same time pays tribute to the idea of empire.
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Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque, ...